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  HOASM: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Quantz, Carl Heinrich Graun and his brother Johann Gottlieb Graun, Franz Benda and his brother Georg Benda, and literary figures such as Ramler and Lessing.
Bach was severely underpaid at court, and at the end of the Seven Years' War (1763) he began to seek employment elsewhere; in 1767 he was appointed Telemann 's replacement in Hamburg.
Bach was author of the single most important treatise of the era, Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen, 2 vols.
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 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
J.S. Bach said later that one of his reasons for accepting the post of Kantor at the Thomasschule was that his sons’ intellectual development suggested that they would benefit from a university education.
All three of Bach’s sacred oratorios: Die Israeliten in der Wüste (The Israelites in the Desert), Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu (The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus), and the Cantata (H.776) which was derived from the first Passion that Bach composed for Hamburg, were performed widely outside Hamburg itself.
C.P.E. Bach believed in the new aesthetic ideals of his time which demanded that music "touch the heart" and "awaken the passions." His works were daring for their time, and some were even considered bizarre by his contemporaries.
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 A Tribute to C.P.E. Bach
Undoubtedly the child of Bach who made the most of both the advantages and the handicaps of being a son of Sebastian was Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88).
Emanuel Bach became so well known throughout Europe that he was often referred to as the Hamburg Bach (to distinguish him from his brother the London Bach--Johann Christian, who was now music master to the Queen of England).
Emanuel emerged from his father’s shadow and made his own way in the world, cutting a path that would ensure his own immortality--but not without reverence toward the already immortal father who had so decisively influenced his course.
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 Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel: Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Carl Philipp Emanuel began his career studying law (1731), but nine years later became court musician to crown prince Frederick (later "the Great").
Carl Philipp Emanuel wrote keyboard works, concertos, symphonies, and numerous choral works.
In 1774-75 Carl Philipp Emanuel updated his father's Ursprung der musicalisch-Bachischen Familie, a valuable source of information about the Bach family of musicians.
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 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), a German composer, keyboard performer, and theorist, was a prolific composer of vocal and instrumental music, especially for keyboard instruments.
The second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach studied with his father and musically was the most important and influential of the sons.
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.
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 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach @ Soundbug Music Artists
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Weimar, March 8, 1714 - December 14, 1788) was a German musician and composer, the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach.
In 1768 Bach succeeded Georg Philipp Telemann as Capellmeister at Hamburg, and in consequence of his new office began to turn his attention more towards church music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart said of him, "He is the father, we are the children." The best part of Haydn's training was derived from a study of his work; Ludwig van Beethoven expressed for his genius the most cordial admiration and regard.
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 Bach Carl Philipp Emanuel - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788), German composer, one of the most influential and celebrated composers of his era.
Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750), German composer and one of the world’s greatest musical geniuses.
In the late 16th century, when Renaissance polyphony was prevalent, new developments in Italy were beginning to change the sound and structure of...
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 Amazon.co.uk: C.P.E Bach: Sonatas & Rondos: Music: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach,Mikhail Pletnev   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Of the sons of J S Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel was by far the most interesting composer, as the Sonatas and Rondos played here by Mikhail Pletnev amply demonstrate.
Bach wrote them for an audience of "connoisseurs and amateurs", but that audience must have been a very superior one: to label this style "pre-classical" is woefully to short-change it.
I suspect this is so in Bach's music because he was trying to forge a new style at least partly in reaction to his father's mathematical precision.
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 Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714 - 1788)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The second son of the great Johann Sebastian Bach by his first wife, C.P.E. Bach was recognised as one of the greatest harpsichordists of his time.
From his very considerable output his sonatas for flute and harpsichord remain an attractive part of chamber music repertoire, with the symphonies written for Baron van Swieten, arbiter elegantium in Vienna, a man whose taste was generally trusted in artistic matters.
C.P.E. Bach wrote a great deal of music for the instruments on which he was acknowledged to be pre-eminent as a performer, the harpsichord and the gentler clavichord.
www.naxos.com /composer/bachcpe.htm   (303 words)

  
 The "new" St Matthew Passion by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
During this year's Holland Festival Early Music Ton Koopman performed a St Matthew Passion by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, which was thought to be lost, until it was rediscovered in the archive of the Berlin Sing-Akademie in Kiev in Ukraine, which is now catalogued by an international board of experts.
This 'split personality' of the work is underlined by the fact that Carl Philipp Emanuel has borrowed music from his father, for instance the opening chorus Christus, der uns selig macht and some turbae and chorales.
Carl Philipp Emanuel chooses the basic mood of the moment and writes the music which reflects that.
www.geocities.com /johan_van_veen/news_and_views/CPhEBach_SMP.html   (688 words)

  
 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - An original talent between the Baroque and Classical eras   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
An advocate of subjectivity and individual self-expression in music, C.P.E. Bach was quickly hailed as the foremost exponent of the "Sturm und Drang" movement of the late 18th century.
While Bach's progressive, highly individualistic style is more pronounced in his keyboard works and certain symphonies, his concertos also contain many features that seize our attention and delight us through their originality.
On the program of the concert given by the Bach Collegium München and conducted by the early-music specialist Christopher Hogwood are three concertos and two symphonies - an ideal introduction to the orchestral style of this great Bach son.
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 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
According to The New Penguin Dictionary of Music, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German composer, fifth child of Johann Sebastian Bach, pupil of his father.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach has an Allegrettoo in Flötenbüchlein für kleine Leute (D/D/A) and Flötenbüchlein für kleine Leute (D/D).
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714 - 1788), biography and works by naxos.com.
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 Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
BACH, CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL [Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel], 1714-88, German composer; second son of J. Bach, his only teacher.
While harpsichordist at the court of Frederick the Great, where his chief duty for 28 years (1738-67) was to accompany the monarch's performances on the flute, he wrote an important work on technique, Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (1753, tr.
His 2 volumes of sonatas (1742-43) and his 20 symphonies established the typical classical forms of such works and powerfully influenced both Haydn and Beethoven.
www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-bach-car.html   (271 words)

  
 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach - Classical music composer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonata In A Minor For Solo Flute Composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788), edited by Manfred Harras.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is the third son of J.S. Bach.
Bach is considered as a master of what is called "Empfindsamkeit", wich is very common in the second half of the XVIIIth century.
www.classical-composers.org /comp/bachcpe   (1301 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach[fE´lip emA´nOOel bAkh] Pronunciation Key, 1714–88, German composer; second son of J. Bach, his only teacher.
While harpsichordist at the court of Frederick the Great, where his chief duty for 28 years (1738–67) was to accompany the monarch's performances on the flute, he wrote an important work on technique, Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (1753, tr.
His 2 volumes of sonatas (1742–43) and his 20 symphonies established the typical classical forms of such works and powerfully influenced both Haydn and Beethoven.
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 Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel - HighBeam Encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
After this artistically unsatisfying service with Frederick, Bach succeeded his godfather, Georg Philipp Telemann, as musical director at Hamburg.
Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel" at HighBeam.
HHHII JC Bach Symphonies and Concertos: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin harmonia mundi.(Features)
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 The Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Biography Page on Classic Cat
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (March 8, 1714 – December 14, 1788) was a German musician and composer, the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart said of him, "He is the father, we are the children." The best part of Haydn's training was derived from a study of his work.
Again he was probably the first composer of eminence who made free use of harmonic colour for its own sake since the time of Lassus, Monteverdi, and Gesualdo, and in this way also he takes rank among the most important pioneers of the First Viennese School.
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 - Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Rococo style composer, and a son of Johann Sebastian Bach, C.P.E. Bach was a wonderful author of cheerful music.
C.P.E. Bach met Mozart, whom he influenced profoundly, and also had effects on the lives of other composers.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach died in Hamburg, on December 14, 1788, and was mourned by the entire musical community of Europe.
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 Amazon.com: Lamento: Music: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach,Johann Christoph Bach,Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach,Johann ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Arnold Schoenberg has made the bold assessment that Bach's sons had similar talent as their father -he did not address commitment, of course-, and the works on this disc highlight the Bach family's suppremacy in this repertoire.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's "Selma" brings out her expressive range in an affecting manner though the aria is quite brief.
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach's "Die Amerikanerin" seems a bit anticlimactic, as it doesn't have the compelling drama of his father J.S. Bach's work, but Kozena lends intelligence and agility to her fiery interpretation here.
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 Bach Again
Pictured here is a page from the manuscripts of the musical estate of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, second son of Johann Sebastian Bach, which were rediscovered recently in Kiev, Ukraine.
The musical estate of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, second son of Johann Sebastian Bach, has been rediscovered in Kiev, Ukraine, by scholars from Harvard and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
A catalog of the approximately 500 Bach family works in the Sing-Akademie music archive is slated to be published as part of the Bach Repertorium series, another joint research project of Harvard's Music Department and the Leipzig Bach Archive.
www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1999/08.19/Bach.html   (416 words)

  
 MusicaBona | CD | Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Oboe Concerto in E flat, Wq 165
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Oboe Concerto in E flat, Wq 165
He was the second son of J. Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.
Bach was severely underpaid there and so at the end of Seven Years' War he bagen to seek empoyment elsewhere.
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 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Rough Guides Music - Find Articles
Of Johann Sebastian Bach's twenty children, three were outstanding musicians in their own right.
Of these three – Wilhelm Friedmann, Johann Christian and Carl Philipp Emanuel – the last was the most influential as a composer, creating a bridge between the exuberant Baroque style of his father and the Classical style of Haydn and Mozart.
Although C.P.E. Bach's educational background was broader than his father's – he trained as a lawyer and preferred the company of writers and intellectuals to that of musicians – he suffered a similar hard grind as a musician: in his case nearly thirty badly...
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 Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) Classical Compositions and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) classical music ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788) Classical Compositions and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) classical music sheets.
BACH, C.P.E.: Sonatas for Flute and Harpsichord, Wq.
BEZALY: Solo Flute From A to Z, Vol.
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 BBC - Radio 3 - Composer of the Week - The 'Hamburg Bach', Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
BBC - Radio 3 - Composer of the Week - The 'Hamburg Bach', Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
The 'Hamburg Bach', Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788)
'Emanuel's part in the rapprochement between music and literature then penetrating Northern Europe took place, not in the seemingly more suitable genres of song or opera, but in the realm of pure instrumental music, and his goal, conscious or unconscious, was to speak emotively without using words,' according to Eugene Helm.
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 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonata In A Minor For Solo Flute at Musicroom.com - Sheet Music for Musicians
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Sonata In A Minor For Solo Flute
The music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, unlike that of his famous father Johann Sebastian 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.
The three movements of this Sonata in A Minor for unaccompanied flute - the only one he wrote for "flute alone" - may be played either in the order written or in the order II-I-III for a more balanced work.
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 HOASM: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Discography
Allegro moderato en re menor, viola sola, (Carl Friedrich Abel); 8.
Allegro en re mayor, viola sola, (Carl Friedrich Abel); 10.
Fantasia in D minor Falck 19 (W.F. Bach); 5.
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