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To distinguish him from his brother Johann Christian, the "London Bach," who at this time was
music master to the Queen of England,[4] C.P.E. Bach was known as the "Berlin Bach" during his
residence in that city, and later as the "Hamburg Bach" when he succeeded Telemann as
Kapellmeister there.[5] He was known simply as Emanuel to his contemporaries.[6]
Contents
1 Life
1.1 Early years: 171438
1.2 Berlin years: 173868
1.3 Hamburg: 176888
2 Works
2.1 Symphonies
2.2 Concertos
2.3 Chamber music
2.4 Keyboard sonatas
2.5 Other keyboard works
2.6 Music for mechanical instruments
2.7 Choral works
3 Legacy and musical style
3.1 Anniversary year 2014
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4 References
4.1 Citations
4.2 Bibliography
5 Further reading
6 External links
Life
Early years: 171438
C. P. E. Bach was born on 8 March 1714 in Weimar to Johann Sebastian Bach[2] and his first wife,
Maria Barbara. He was the composer's third son.[1] The composer Georg Philipp Telemann was his
godfather. When he was ten years old, he entered the St. Thomas School at Leipzig,[2] where his
father had become cantor in 1723.[1] He was one of four Bach children to become professional
musicians; all four were trained in music almost entirely by their father. In an age of royal
patronage, father and son alike knew that a university education helped prevent a professional
musician from being treated as a servant. Carl, like his brothers, pursued advanced studies in
jurisprudence at the University of Leipzig in 1731[2] and at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder in 1735.[1] In
1738, at the age of 24, he obtained his degree but never practiced law,[1] instead turning his
attention immediately to music.[7]
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Hamburg: 176888
In 1768,[1] after protracted negotiations,[2] Bach was permitted to relinquish his position in order to
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succeed his godfather Telemann as director of music (Kapellmeister)[1] at Hamburg. Upon his
release from service at the court he was named court composer for Frederick's sister, Princess Anna
Amalia. The title was honorary, but her patronage and interest in the oratorio genre may have
played a role in nurturing the ambitious choral works that followed.[9]
Bach began to turn more of his energies to ecclesiastical and choral music in his new position. The
job required the steady production of music for Protestant church services at the Michaeliskirche
(Church of St. Michael) and elsewhere in Hamburg. The following year he produced his most
ambitious work,[2] the oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wste (The Israelites in the Desert), a
composition remarkable not only for its great beauty but for the resemblance of its plan to that of
Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah.[1] Between 1768 and 1788, he wrote twenty-one settings of the
Passion, and some seventy cantatas, litanies, motets, and other liturgical pieces.[1] In Hamburg he
also presented a number of works by contemporaries, including his father, Telemann, Graun,
Handel, Haydn, Salieri and Johann David Holland (17461827).[10] Bach's choral output reached
its apex in two works: the double chorus Heilig (Holy) of 1776, a setting of the seraph song from
the throne scene in Isaiah, and the grand cantata Die Auferstehung Jesu (The Resurrection of Jesus)
of 177482, which sets a poetic Gospel harmonization by the poet Karl Wilhelm Ramler.
Widespread admiration of Auferstehung led to three 1788 performances in Vienna sponsored by the
Baron Gottfried van Swieten and conducted by Mozart.[11]
Bach married Johanna Maria Dannemann in 1744. Only three of their children lived to adulthood:
Johann Adam (174589), Anna Carolina Philippina (17471804), and Johann Sebastian "the
Younger" (174878). None became musicians and Johann Sebastian, a promising painter, died in
his late twenties during a 1778 trip to Italy.[12] Emanuel Bach died in Hamburg on 14 December
1788.[1] He was buried in the Michaeliskirche in Hamburg.
Works
Symphonies
Among Bach's most popular and recorded works are
his symphonies. While in Berlin, he wrote several
string symphonies,[13] most of which were later
revised to add parts for wind instruments. Of these,
the E minor symphony, Wq. 178, has been
particularly popular.
In Hamburg, Bach wrote a major set of six string
symphonies for Gottfried van Swieten, Wq. 182.
These works were not published in his lifetime (van
Swieten, who had commissioned them to be written
in a more "difficult" style, preferred to retain them
Sonatas by C. P. E. Bach
Flute Sonata in B flat major
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Concertos
Performed by Christopher
Hinterhuber (piano)
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Other music by C. P. E. Bach
Solfeggietto
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Keyboard sonatas
Bach was a prolific writer of keyboard sonatas, many of which were intended for his favored
instrument, the clavichord. During his lifetime, he published more collections of keyboard music
than anything else, in the following collections:
Sei sonate per cembalo che all' augusta maest di Federico II, re di Prussia, 1742 ("Prussian"
sonatas), Wq. 48.
Sei sonate per cembalo, dedicate all' altezza serenissima di Carlo Eugenio, duca di
Wirtemberg, 1744 ("Wrttemberg" sonatas), Wq. 49.
Achtzehn Probe-Stcke in Sechs Sonaten, 1753 ("Probestcke" sonatas), Wq. 63.
Sechs Sonaten frs Clavier mit vernderten Reprisen, 1760 ("Reprisen" sonatas), Wq. 50.
Fortsetzung von Sechs Sonaten frs Clavier, 1761 ("Fortsetzung" sonatas), Wq. 51.
Zweite Fortsetzung von Sechs Sonaten frs Clavier, 1763 ("Zweite Fortsetzung" sonatas),
Wq. 52.
Sechs Leichte Clavier Sonaten, 1766 ("Leichte" sonatas), Wq. 53.
Six Sonates pour le Clavecin l'usage des Dames, 1770 ("Damen" sonatas), Wq. 54.
Six collections of Clavier Sonaten fr Kenner und Liebhaber, 177987 ("Kenner und
Liebhaber" sonatas), Wq. 55-59, 61.
Much of Bach's energy during his last years was dedicated to the publication of the "Kenner und
Liebhaber" collections (which also include fantasias and rondos, see below). [19]
Wq. 64:16 are six sonatinas for keyboard, and Wq. 65:150 are fifty further keyboard sonatas.
The Sonata in E flat major, Wq. 65:7, is based on Solo per il cembalo, BWV Anh. III 129, No. 27
in the second Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.[20]
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Easily Bach's best-known piece is the Solfeggietto, Wq. 117/2, to the point that the introduction to
The Essential C.P.E. Bach is subtitled "Beyond the Solfeggio in C Minor".[21] Several of Bach's
other miscellaneous keyboard works have gained fame, including the character piece La Caroline
and the Fantasia in F-sharp minor, Wq. 67. Bach's fantasias, in particular, have been considered to
show him at his most characteristic: they are full of dramatic silences, harmonic surprises, and
perpetually varied figuration.
Bach published three major collections of miscellaneous keyboard works during his lifetime: the
Clavierstcke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 of 1765, and the Kurze und Leichte Clavierstcke
collections, Wq. 11314 of 1766. The former includes songs, fantasias, dances, sonatas, fugues, and
even a symphony and concerto for solo piano (Bach was later to publish an entire collection of
keyboard versions of his symphonies).
Bach also wrote a set of six organ sonatas for the organ of Frederick the Great's sister Wilhelmina.
Choral works
Throughout his lifetime, Bach worked on the
Magnificat in D, Wq. 215. J. S. Bach was alive to
hear it in 1749, and C. P. E. continued to revise and
perform it as late as 1786. The work clearly shows
the influence of J.S. Bach's own Magnificat,
including the striking resemblance of the Deposuit
movements in both works.
His other important choral works include the Heilig
(German Sanctus), Wq. 217, which he performed
together with the Credo from his Father's Mass in B
minor, the oratorios Die Israeliten in der Wste, Wq.
238 and Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu,
Wq. 240, and 21 passions.
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He was probably the first composer of eminence who made free use of harmonic color for its own
sake.[1] In this way, he compares well with the most important representatives of the First Viennese
School.[1] In fact, he exerted enormous influence on the North German School of composers, in
particular Georg Anton Benda, Bernhard Joachim Hagen, Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Johann Gottfried
Mthel, and Friedrich Wilhelm Rust. His influence was not limited to his contemporaries and
extended to Felix Mendelssohn and Carl Maria von Weber.
His name fell into neglect during the 19th century, with Robert Schumann notoriously opining that
"as a creative musician he remained very far behind his father";[28] others opined that he was "a
somewhat feeble imitator of his father's style".[2] All the same, Johannes Brahms held him in high
regard and edited some of his music. By the early 20th century, he was better regarded[1] but the
revival of C. P. E. Bach's works has been chiefly underway since Helmuth Koch's recordings of his
symphonies and Hugo Ruf's recordings of his keyboard sonatas in the 1960s. There is an ongoing
project to record his complete works, led by Mikls Spnyi on the Swedish record label BIS. In
2014, the Croatian pianist Ana-Marija Markovina, in cooperation with the Packard Humanities
Institute, the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, the Schsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig and
Harvard University released a 26-CD box set of the complete works for solo piano on the German
record label Hnssler Classic, performed on a modern Bsendorfer grand piano.
The works of C. P. E. Bach are known by "Wq" numbers, from Alfred Wotquenne's 1906 catalogue,
and by "H" numbers from a catalogue by Eugene Helm (1989).
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He was portrayed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner in the 1941 biopic of his brother Friedemann Bach.
References
Citations
1. EB (1911).
2. EB (1878).
3. Ratner (1980).
4. Hubeart, T.L. "A Tribute to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (http://www.pennuto.com/music/cpe_bach.htm)
5. Allison, John. "CPE Bach at 300: why he's more than just Johann Sebastian's son
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/classicalmusic/10577996/CPE-Bach-at-300-why-hesmore-than-just-Johann-Sebastians-son.html)", The Telegraph, 26 Jan 2014.
6. "Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach (http://www.classiccat.net/bach_cpe/biography.php)" ClassicalCat.net
7. Thompson (1998) p. 32
8. Dammann, Guy (24 February 2011), The Guardian "CPE Bach: like father, like son"
(http://www.theguardian.com/music/2011/feb/24/cpe-bach).
9. Thompson (1998) pp. 30, 56
10. Thompson (1998) p. 37
11. Thompson (1998) pp. 4748
12. Thompson (1998) p. 98
13. Wq. 173181.
14. Complete Works, Vol. III/2, Preface.
15. Complete Works, Vol. III/3, Preface.
16. Richard Crocker, A History of Musical Style
17. Complete Works, Vol. III/6, Preface.
18. Complete Works, Vol. III/8, Preface.
19. Complete Works, Vol. I/4, Preface.
20. Bach Digital Work 1440 (http://www.bachdigital.de/receive
/BachDigitalWork_work_00001440?lang=en)
21. "Contents of The Essential C.P.E. Bach (https://web.archive.org/web/20140825052506/http:
//cpebach.org/toc/toc-Essential.html)". Via archive.org.
22. "Cramer and Sturm Songs" in Complete Works, ser. VI, v. 2., p. xxiii (Packard Humanities Institute,
2009).
23. Shepherd, John. Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World (https://books.google.com
/books?id=pJvzEzjahkQC&pg=PA325), Vol. II, p. 325 (A&C Black, 2003).
24. Altman, Ludvig. "A well-tempered musician's unfinished journey through life: oral history transcript
(https://archive.org/stream/welltemperedmusical00altmrich/welltemperedmusical00altmrich_djvu.txt)",
UC Berkeley, 1990, 125b. Via archive.org.
25. Rochlitz, pp. 308 ff.
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Bibliography
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works, a complete edition of his music, has been
in progress since 2005 and is somewhat more than halfway finished as of 2014.
"Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach", Encyclopdia Britannica, 9th ed., Vol. III, New York:
Charles Scribner's Sons, 1878, p. 196.
"Karl Philipp Emanuel Bach", Encyclopdia Britannica, 11th ed., Vol. III, Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1911, pp. 130131.
Ratner, Leonard G. (1980), Classic Music: Expression, Form and Style, New York: Schirmer.
Rochlitz, Friedrich (182432), Fr Freunde der Tonkunst, 4 vols., Leipzig. (German)
Thompson, Alton (1998). Formal Coherence in Emanuel Bach's Auferstehung (DMA thesis).
Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.
Ottenberg, Hans-Gnter (1987), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, translated from the German by
P.J. Whitmore for OUP, ISBN 0-19-315246-0.
Further reading
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) contains a biography and list of
his compositions.
David Schulenberg: The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (2014) A study of the
composer's works, published for 300th anniversary of the composer
External links
Free scores by Carl Philipp Emanual Bach at the
Wikimedia Commons
International Music Score Library Project
has media related to
Performances of some works (https://musopen.org/music
Carl Philipp Emanuel
/composer/carl-philipp-emanuel-bach/) at Musopen
Bach.
A Tribute to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Wikiquote has
(http://www.pennuto.com/music/cpe_bach.htm), sketch of
quotations related to:
the composer's life with extensive references
Carl Philipp Emanuel
Complete Catalogue (http://www.uquebec.ca/musique
Bach
/catal/baccp/baccp.html) of C. P. E. Bach's oeuvre (French)
Website of the edition Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The
Complete Works (http://www.cpebach.org/)
Finding the Lost Manuscripts of C.P.E. Bach (https://web.archive.org/web/20080716153641
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