Background
Charles Philip Emanuel Bach was born in Weimar on March 8, 1714 .
(Often called "Solfeggietto," this well-known piece, publi...)
Often called "Solfeggietto," this well-known piece, published in 1770, is the most famous of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's keyboard works. Performance footnotes are included.
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Of the four sons of J. S. Bach who became composers, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88) was the most prolific, the most original, and the most influential both during and after his lifetime. This first full-length English-language study critically surveys his output, examining not only the famous keyboard sonatas and concertos but also the songs, chamber music, and sacred works, many of which resurfaced in 1999 and have not previously been evaluated. The bookalso outlines the composer's career from his student days at Leipzig and Frankfurt (Oder) to his nearly three decades as court musician to Prussian King Frederick ""the Great"" and his last twenty years as cantor at Hamburg. Focusing on the composer's choices within his social and historical context, the book shows how C. P. E. Bach deliberately avoided his father's style while adopting the manner of his Berlin colleagues, derived from Italian opera. Anew perspective on the composer emerges from the demonstration that C. P. E. Bach, best known for his virtuoso keyboard works, refashioned himself as a writer of vocal music and popular chamber compositions in response to changingcultural and aesthetic trends. Supplementary texts and musical examples are included on a companion website.
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This new Kalmus edition offers all six of C. P. E. Bach's Prussian Sonatas for piano solo. These will make fresh additions to advancing students' lessons and recital programs.
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This volume contains 25 of CPE Bach's finest sonatas reproduced from an authoritative French edition. These sonatas are from his mature period, written between 1752 & 1783. Also included are the w numbers assigned to the sonatas in the standard work by Alfred Wotquenne.
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A new urtext edition of C.P.E. Bach's Sonata for flute solo in a minor. Complete with critical commentary, this edition clearly shows the problematic areas of the text and includes images of the manuscript to illustrate the musicological issues.
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Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Complete Orchestral Score. ( Student Facsimile, 2012).. LOOSE LEAF UNBOUND EDITION NO BINDER. OKYD
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Charles Philip Emanuel Bach was born in Weimar on March 8, 1714 .
At the age of 10, he was sent to St. Thomas's Leipzig School (in 1723 his father became a cantor of the school and the choir of St. Thomas). After school, Carl Philip Emanuel studied law at the universities of Leipzig (1731) and Frankfurt (Oder) (1735). In 1738, at the age of 24, he received a degree, but immediately left his career as a lawyer and devoted himself to music.
He moved to Berlin in 1738 and became keyboard player for the young crown prince, Frederick of Prussia, who in 1740 became King Frederick II. Bach remained in Frederick's service until 1767 as keyboard performer, composer, and accompanist to other members of the royal musical entourage, which included Frederick himself as flutist and a very distinguished circle of musicians. Two early sets of keyboard sonatas, the "Prussian" Sonatas (1740) and the "Württemberg" Sonatas (1743), show that by the age of 30 Bach had achieved a fully mature style of composition, less rigorous in its contrapuntal organization than that of his father but with considerable power of invention and formal design and with evident stress on bringing to keyboard composition some of the intense expressivity associated mainly with vocal music; for example, the first of the 1740 Sonatas has an instrumental "recitative" as the slow movement. In 1767 Bach moved from the court of Berlin to a position in Hamburg as director of music at the major churches of the city, and he remained in Hamburg until his death in 1788. His duties called for extensive composition of sacred music, and his Hamburg works include two oratorios and a number of motets and cantatas. He also wrote more than 250 religious and secular songs. But by his own admission he attached the greatest importance to his instrumental music, and he continued in later years to set himself new problems in keyboard composition. The principal later works in this field are his Sonatas, Fantasias, and Rondos for Connoisseurs and Amateurs, published between 1779 and 1787. A measure of Bach's importance to the inner development of 18th-century style may be seen in the unequivocal claim by Franz Joseph Haydn that he owed a great debt, which dated from his earliest apprentice years, to the music of C. P. E. Bach. Carl Philip Emanuel died in Hamburg on December 14, 1788. Buried in the crypt of St. Michael's Church in Hamburg.
(Often called "Solfeggietto," this well-known piece, publi...)
(This volume contains 25 of CPE Bach's finest sonatas repr...)
(Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, by Carl Philipp Emanuel ...)
(This new Kalmus edition offers all six of C. P. E. Bach's...)
(A new urtext edition of C.P.E. Bach's Sonata for flute so...)
(Of the four sons of J. S. Bach who became composers, Carl...)
Quotations:
"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. "
"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. "
"A musician cannot move others unless he, too, is moved. "
"I have assigned many of my father's basses to students, without endangering their lives. Also, they do no harm to the fingers. "
"The new, though engaging at times, may often start as offensive to us. The latter is often proof of the worth of this, while in the long run it will receive more recognition, than some, of what we liked so much in the beginning. "
"Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it. "
"What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition. "
Quotes from others about the person
When Charles Burney visited him in Hamburg in 1773, he wrote vividly of Bach's performance on his "Silbermann clavichord, his favorite instrument, upon which he played three or four of his choicest and most difficult compositions, with the delicacy, precision, and spirit for which he is so justly celebrated. .. ."