The song is based on Johann Sebastian Bach ’ s Praeambulum 1 C-Major ( BWV 924 ) from the Klavierbuechlein fuer Wilhelm Friedemann Bach though Sting gave little comment on this adaptation.

He also wrote the first biography of Bach ( in 1802 ), one which is of particular value today, as he was still able to correspond directly with Bach's sons Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, and thereby obtained much valuable information that would otherwise have been lost.

The graded course of keyboard studies and composition that J. S. Bach provided is documented in the Clavier-Büchlein vor Wilhelm Friedemann Bach ( modern spelling: Klavierbüchlein für Wilhelm Friedemann Bach ), with entries by both father and son.

It is known that Friedemann sold some of his father's collection to raise cash to pay debts ( including a large sale in 1759 to Johann Georg Nacke ).

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is not to be confused with Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach, his nephew, also a composer.

* 1999 in German: EDA Edition Abseits, www. eda-records. com: Brundibar-Eine Oper fur Kinder ; collegium iuvenum, Knabenchor Stuttgart, Madchenkantorei St. Eberhard, conducted by Friedemann Keck ; 1999-two-CD set, in German ; the second CD is " Brundibar and the Children of Theresienstadt ", a feature with Hannelore Wondschick.

* Wilhelm Friedemann Bach is appointed organist of St Sophia's Church, Dresden.

The Encyclopedia of the Third Reich is a two-volume text edited by Christian Zenter and Friedemann Bedürftig.

Others were passed on through his only known Berlin pupil, Sarah Itzig Levy, the daughter of a prominent Jewish family in Berlin and great-aunt of Felix Mendelssohn ; it was she who gave Mendelssohn the manuscript of the St. Matthew Passion, which she had received from Friedemann.

Friedemann himself may have been one of the models for Diderot's philosophical dialogue Rameau's Nephew ( Le Neveu de Rameau ).

Schulze often takes German events as a starting point for his compositions, a notable example being on his 1978 album " X " ( the title signifying it was his tenth album ), subtitled " Six Musical Biographies ", a reference to such notables as Ludwig II of Bavaria, Friedrich Nietzsche, Georg Trakl, and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.

Bach wrote the variations to provide a display piece for Friedemann.

In 1750 the church authorities reprimanded Friedemann for overstaying a leave of absence ( he was in Leipzig settling his father's estate ).

Friedemann Bach was renowned for his improvisatory skills.

Friedemann ’ s compositions include many church cantatas and instrumental works, of which the most notable are the fugues, polonaises and fantasias for clavier, and the duets for two flutes.

Friedemann's students included Johann Nikolaus Forkel, who in 1802 published the first biography of Johann Sebastian Bach ; Friedemann, as well as his younger brother Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, were major informants for Forkel.

This suggests the piece was written out in Dresden by the Bach family for a July performance in the Sophienkirche ( where Wilhelm Friedemann was organist ), or perhaps the Hofkirche im Theater.

He tied for first (+ 5 = 1 − 2 ) with Gunnar Friedemann in the tournament, then defeated him (+ 2 = 0 − 1 ) in the playoff match.

* Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – 3 Fugues for Organ with Pedal

* Wilhelm Friedemann Bach – Pieces for Musical Clock

Bach wrote 15 inventions ( BWV 772-786 ) as exercises for his son, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach.

Bach had some of his works copied: e. g. he instructed his son, Wilhelm Friedemann, to copy the Amen from Zelenka's third Magnificat ( ZWV 108 ) for use in Leipzig at St. Thomas's church.

Among the dozens of composers whose music he recorded as a harpsichordist, organist, clavichordist, fortepianist, chamber musician or conductor were Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Heinrich Biber, John Blow, Georg Böhm, William Byrd, André Campra, François Couperin, Louis Couperin, John Dowland, Jacques Duphly, Antoine Forqueray, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jakob Froberger, Orlando Gibbons, André Grétry, George Frideric Handel, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Georg Muffat, Johann Pachelbel, Henry Purcell, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christian Ritter, Johann Rosenmüller, Domenico Scarlatti, Agostino Steffani, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Georg Philipp Telemann, Manuel Valls, Antonio Vivaldi, and Matthias Weckmann.

The performance material Bach submitted to Augustus on July 27, 1733 was written on Dresden-made paper, in the hand of Bach, his wife Anna Magdalena, sons Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel, and a Dresden copyist.

Johann Christian Bach ( the so-called Halle Clavier-Bach ), fourth cousin and pupil of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, in a portrait by Friedrich Georg Weitsch

In 1751, Friedemann married Dorothea Elisabeth Georgi ( 1721 – 1791 ), who was 11 years his junior and who outlived him by seven years.

Die Elite der deutschen Presse nach 1945 ( The gentlemen journalists: the elite of the German press after 1945 ) by Lutz Hachmeister and Friedemann Siering, ( Beck, Munich, 2002 ).

* Works by Wilhelm Friedemann Bach

The vector clocks algorithm was independently developed by Colin Fidge and Friedemann Mattern in 1988.

A further revision was published in 2008 and has been recorded by conductor Friedemann Layer with the Musikalische Akademie des Nationaltheater-Orchesters Mannheim.

The world premiere of this new ending was given by the Dutch Brabants Orkest under the baton of Friedemann Layer in Breda ( NL ), 15 October 2011.

Bach's son Friedemann Bach arranged the work by adding a second trumpet and timpani.

Wilhelm Friedemann ( hereafter Friedemann ) was born in Weimar, where his father was employed as organist and chamber musician to the Duke of Saxe-Weimar.

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach ( 22 November 1710 – 1 July 1784 ), the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer.

In July 1720, when Friedemann was nine, his mother Maria Barbara Bach died suddenly ; Johann Sebastian Bach remarried in December of 1721.

Friedemann was appointed in 1733 to the position of organist of the St. Sophia's Church at Dresden.

Friedemann was deeply unhappy in Halle almost from the beginning of his tenure.

In 1749 he was involved in a conflict with the Cantor of the Liebfrauenkirche, Gottfried Mittag, who had misappropriated funds that were due to Friedemann.

" He should not be confused with Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, his uncle, also a composer.

In addition to his musical training, Friedemann received formal schooling beginning in Weimar.

Friedemann has in earlier biographies been called a poor custodian of his father's musical manuscripts, many of which he inherited ; however, more recent scholars are uncertain how many were lost.

Two of these had musical careers of their own: Wilhelm Friedemann and the aforementioned Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.