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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Baroque and Classical period composer and musician, the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.
C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father’s Baroque style and the Classical style that followed it.
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Catharina Dorothea Bach
Elisabeth Juliana Friderica Bach
Maria Sophia Bach
Johanna Carolina Bach
Regina Susanna Bach
Christiana Dorothea Bach
Christiana Benedicta Louisa
Regina Johanna Bach
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach
Johann Christian Bach
Gottfried Heinrich Bach
Johann Christoph Bach
Leopold Augustus Bach
Christiana Sophia Enrietta Bach
Johann August Abraham Bach
Ernestus Andreas Bach
Christian Gottlieb Bach
Johann Christoph Bach
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Johanna Maria Bach
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann August Bach
Anna Carolina Philippina Bach
About the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Baroque and Classical period composer and musician, the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.
C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father’s Baroque style and the Classical style that followed it. He was the principal representative of the empfindsamer Stil or ‘sensitive style’. The qualities of his keyboard music are forerunners of the expressiveness of Romantic music, in deliberate contrast to the statuesque forms of Baroque music. His organ sonatas mainly come from the galant style.
To distinguish him from his brother Johann Christian, the “London Bach”, who at this time was music master to Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, C. P. E. Bach was known as the “Berlin Bach” during his residence in that city, and later as the “Hamburg Bach” when he succeeded Telemann as Kapellmeister there. To his contemporaries, he was known simply as Emanuel. His second name was in honour of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach.
Bach was an influential pedagogue, writing the influential “Essay on the true art of playing keyboard instruments”, which would be studied by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, among others.
3 Quotes by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
Carl Philipp Emanuel BachGerman composer (1714-1788)
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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must of necessity feel all of the affects that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humour will stimulate a like humour in the listener.
Carl Philipp Emanuel BachGerman composer (1714-1788)
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What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
Carl Philipp Emanuel BachGerman composer (1714-1788)