Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
The second surviving son of J.S. Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel was the most innovative and idiosyncratic member of an extremely talented musical family. His music, unlike that of his father or that of the master he influenced, Haydn, did not define an era so much as reveal a deeply personal response to the musical conventions of his time.
C.P.E. Bach could play his father's technically demanding keyboard pieces at sight by the time he was seven. An exceptional student in areas other than music, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1731 to study law, then transferred to the University of Frankfurt an der Oder. He graduated in 1734 but remained in that town giving keyboard lessons, involving himself in public concerts, and learning the composer's craft.
By 1740, Bach was in Berlin as harpsichordist to Frederick the Great of Prussia. Here, he was first exposed to Italian opera seria, and its dramatic style infiltrated his instrumental music. Little of this was heard at court, where Bach accompanied the flutist-king in one reactionary concerto after another by Quantz. He made several attempts to find a new position, but the stress of the king's disfavor was partially relieved in 1756 when Frederick became distracted by the Seven Years' War and was frequently away from the court. Bach found a select audience for his remarkable and experimental series of keyboard works such as the so-called "Prussian" and "Württemberg" sonatas (composed in the early 1740s) and the Sonatas with Varied Repeats (1760). Bach finally got himself released from Frederick's service in 1768 in order to succeed Telemann as cantor at the Johanneum in Hamburg, also serving as music director for the city's five major churches; he held this post until his death.
Stylistically distant from his father's rigorous polyphony, C.P.E. Bach was something of a proto-Romantic; he was the master of Empfindsamkeit, or "intimate expressiveness." The dark, dramatic, improvisation-like passages that appear in some of Mozart's and Haydn's works are due in part to his influence; in time, his music became known all over Europe. His impulsive works for solo keyboard, which lurch into unexpected keys, change tempo and dynamics abruptly, and fly along with wide-ranging themes, are especially compelling. One account of Bach's after-dinner improvisations described the sweaty, glazed-eyed musician as "possessed," an adjective that would be applied to equally intense and idiosyncratic musicians in the Romantic age. Many of his symphonies are as audacious as his keyboard pieces.
In the area of chamber music, Bach pulled the keyboard out of its subsidiary Baroque role and made it a full partner with, or even leader of, the other instruments. Yet here he fashioned the music to the public's conservative expectations, as he did with his church music. He composed prolifically in many genres, and much of his work awaits public rediscovery.
Bach also produced an important account of performance practice in the second half of the 18th century, translated into English as Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments.
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Discografia
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C.P.E. Bach: Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu, H. 777
Bart Van Reyn, Il Gardellino, Vlaams Radiokoor
Classical - Lançado por Passacaille em 25/02/2022
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C.P.E Bach: Concerto pour piano, cordes et basse continue en ré mineur (Live)
Christian Zacharias, Orchestre national Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Miscellaneous - Lançado por XXI Music em 17/04/2020
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Jermaine Sprosse: Sonaten für Cembalo und Hammerklavier
Jermaine Sprosse, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Christoph Nichelmann, Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch
Classical - Lançado por Rondeau Production em 06/10/2014
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Le clavecin baroque
Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Anne Gallet, Christiane Jaccottet
Classical - Lançado por Claves Records em 01/01/2000
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Harp Recital
Chamber Music - Lançado por Claves Records em 01/01/2000
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Classical Piano Favorites
Classical - Lançado por The Playlist Spot em 14/04/2015
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Baroque Thanksgiving
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Georg Friedrich Händel
Classical - Lançado por UME - Global Clearing House em 21/11/2020
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18th Century Harp Music (Digitally Remastered)
Classical - Lançado por EMG Classical em 27/08/2013
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Nikolai Petrov: Piano Fantasies By C.P.E. Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Schumann
Classical - Lançado por Pipeline Music em 29/11/2006
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Bach
World - Lançado por Laserlight Digital em 01/04/2014
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Bach à la Klezmer
Kevin Spagnolo, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Classical - Lançado por EUROPEAN GRAMOPHONE em 02/01/2024
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The Classical Collection - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach -Obras maestras del Barroco
Classical - Lançado por ClassicalPirosDigital em 12/06/2015
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Serenad till Gryningen
Classical - Lançado por Naxos Sweden - Mats Bergström Musik AB em 01/01/1997
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Rebecca Troxler Plays Flute Music By the Sons of Bach
Rebecca Troxler, David Schulenberg, Steven Lubin
Chamber Music - Lançado por Albany Records em 01/05/2014
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Louis Moyse Plays: Duruflé, C.P.E. Bach, Telemann, Schubert - Volume 5
Chamber Music - Lançado por Lyrichord em 01/05/2016
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La Gabriel, H.97
Vinyl Digital, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Classical - Lançado por Pastel Records Canada em 01/04/2024
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Sons and pupils of Johann Sebastian Bach
Classical - Lançado por Daphne Records em 03/12/2014
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Serenad till Gryningen
Classical - Lançado por Mats Bergstrom Musik em 01/01/1997
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Bach: Solfeggietto in C Minor
Classical - Lançado por Pocket Watch Records em 11/12/2013
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Guitar Lover (Electric guitar version)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Nologo
Electronic - Lançado por Electro Roma em 19/01/2022
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