Bach, C.p.e.: Keyboard Sonatas

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Cat No: 8553640

Release Date: 12 January 1999

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 730099464024

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BACH, C.P.E.

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788): Keyboard Sonatas Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born in 1714in Weimar, the second son by his first wife of Johann Sebastian Bach, thennewly appointed Konzertmeister to the Grand Duke Wilhelm Ernst, He attended theLatin School in Cothen, where his father became Court Kapellmeister in 1717,and in 1723 moved with the family to Leipzig, where he became a pupil at theThomasschule, on the staff of which his father had become Cantor. In 1731he matriculated as a law student at the University of Leipzig, embarking on acourse of study that had been denied his father. He continued these studies atthe University of Frankfurt an der Oder and in 1738, rejecting the chance ofaccompanying a young gentleman on a tour abroad, he entered the service of theCrown Prince of Prussia at Ruppin as harpsichordist, moving with the court toBerlin in 1740, on the accession to the throne of the Prince, better knownsubsequently as Frederick the Great. In Berlin and at Potsdam Bach,confirmed as Court Harpsichordist, had the unenviable task of accompanyingevening concerts at which the King, an able enough amateur flautist, was afrequent performer. His colleagues, generally of a more conservative tendency,included the distinguished flautist and theorist Quantz, the Benda and Graunbrothers and other musicians of similar reputation, while men of letters at thecourt included Lessing. In 1755 he applied for his father's old positionat the Thomasschule in Leipzig, but was unsuccessful, his father's former pupilDoles being appointed in succession to Johann Sebastian's immediate successor,Gottlob Harrer. It was not until 1768 that he was able to escape from aposition that he had found increasingly uncongenial, succeeding his godfatherTelemann as Cantor at the Johanneum in Hamburg, a city that offered much wideropportunities than Leipzig. Bach spent the last twenty years of his life inHamburg. In Berlin he had won a wider reputation with his Versuch??ber die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (Essay on the True Art of ClavierPlaying) and was regarded as the leading keyboard-player of his day. In Hamburghe continued to enjoy his established position as a man of wide generaleducation, able to mix on equal terms with the leading writers of hisgeneration and no mere working musician. He died in 1788, his death mourned bya generation that thought of him as more important than his father, dubbed"the old periwig" by his sons. As a composer Carl Philipp EmanuelBach was prolific, writing a considerable quantity of music for the harpsichordand the instrument he much favoured, the clavichord. His music exemplifies thetheories expounded in his Versuch, with a tendency to use dramatic andrhetorical devices, a fine command of melody and a relatively sparing use ofthe contrapuntal elements that had by now come to seem merely academic. Inmusical terms he is associated with Lessing's theories of sentiment, Empfindsamkeit,the complement of Enlightenment rationalism.Carl
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