Bach’s death in 1750, Christian went to live with one of his older half- brothers, Carl Philipp Emanuel, in Berlin. Like so many Protestant musicians who worked in Italy in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the sensual-even theatrical-appeal of Catholicism and opera proved difficult to resist: the mighty fortress of Lutheran austerity could not long hold out against the siege of sumptuous decadence. Born in 1735, Johann Christian began his long sojourn in Italy in 1755 and converted to Catholicism luckily the stern father as five years dead.
Only the youngest of Johann Sebastian Bach’s sons departed the German homeland.
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