Release Date: 12 January 1999
Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 730099428927
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: BACH, C.P.E. / BACH, W.F.
Description
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788) Sinfonias, Wq. 183Sinfonia No.1 in D MajorSinfonia No.2 in E Flat MajorSinfonia No.3 in F MajorSinfonia No.4 in G MajorWilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710 - 1784) Sinfonia in F Major In October 1707 Johann Sebastian Bach, newly appointed as organist at Mühlhausen, married his cousin Maria Barbara Bach. The following year he moved to Weimar as court organist and it was here that the first six of his children were born, the second, Wilhelm Friedemann, his first son, in 1710 and the fifth and next surviving son, Carl Philipp Emanuel, in 1714. Three years later the family moved to Cöthen, where Johann Sebastian had been appointed Court Kapellmeister to the young Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Cöthen. Here both boys attended the Lutheran Latin School, while their father took sole charge of their musical education. Maria Barbara died in July 1720 and the following year Bach married Anna Magdalena Wilcke. In 1723, after Prince Leopold's marriage to a woman that Bach later described as amusica, he was appointed to the position of Thomascantor in Leipzig, a position for which Carl Philipp Emanuel's distinguished godfather Telemann had been the preferred candidate. The education of the boys continued at the choir school of St Thomas where their father was now employed. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was to enjoy a career of considerable distinction, profiting from opportunities that his father had never had. In 1731 he matriculated at the Faculty of Law of Leipzig University, while developing always his now considerable musical skills as a composer and keyboard- player under the guidance of his father. Three years later he moved to the Viadrina University in Frankfurt an der Oder, a town that offered more restricted musical possibilities, and in 1738, having completed his law studies, he took up the position of harpsichordist to the Crown Prince of Prussia at Ruppin, moving with him to Charlottenburg when the latter ascended the throne in 1740. The musical establishment of the new king, Frederick the Great, himself a flautist, was a distinguished one, including members of the Benda family, Quantz and the Grauns. Bach's duties, which involved accompanying the king in his own musical performances, established him as a keyboard-player of the highest reputation, a position further enhanced by the publication in 1753 of his influential Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (Essay on the True Art of Keyboard-Playing) and by a series of compositions that represented, in general, a style much less conservative than that favoured at court. The death of Telemann in 1767 provided Carl Philipp Emanuel with an opportunity for change and the following year he succeeded his godfather as Cantor and Director of Music in Hamburg, a position that acknowledged his pre-eminence as a performer and teacher and provided scope for much wider activity than had been possible during the thirty years or so he had spent in the serv
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yang/Schwabe/Dt So/Wit
Wolf Harden
Wolf Harden
