Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was probably the most famous of the Bach sons. He wrote many works for keyboard instruments, and these form the core of his compositional oeuvre. This volume is the last of Henle’s three-part anthology edition of selections of his piano sonatas, and contains 11 sonatas from between 1760 and 1783, three of them published here for the first time. Many performance instructions from C.P.E. Bach’s important musical instruction book, the “Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen” [Essay on the True Art of Playing the Keyboard], find their way into this volume, including a table in which the most important ornamentation signs and their proper execution are brought together.
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The last volume of our three-volume edition of selected keyboard sonatas by C. P. E. Bach contains 11 sonatas composed between 1760 and 1783. Only sonatas 24 and 32 appeared in print during the composer’s lifetime; sonatas 27–32 and 34 (along with many of Bach’s other sonatas) were included by Aristide Farrenc in the collection titled Le Trésor des pianistes … 更多
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
He is primarily famous for his music for keyboard instruments and is regarded as the most important composer of sonatas (approximately 150) in the mid eighteenth century. His self-image as a composer is in line with the aesthetic of the genius. His musical idiom is characterized by a “speaking” disposition and by moments of surprise.
1714 | Born in Weimar on March 8; second surviving son from Johann Sebastian Bach’s first marriage. Musical education from his father; attends the Lutheran Latin school in Köthen, the St. Thomas School in Leipzig. Participates in the Collegium Musicum. |
1731 | Law studies in Leipzig. |
1734–38 | Continuation of law studies in Frankfurt an der Oder. Occasional compositions. |
1740–68 | Harpsichordist in Berlin at the court of Frederick II. |
1741 | Symphony in G major (Wq 173), his first. |
1742–44 | “Prussian” and “Württemberg” Sonatas. |
1753 | Treatise: “Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments” (First part; second part in 1762) |
1758 | Publication of “Professor Gellert’s Sacred Odes and Songs” (Second collection in 1764) |
1760 | Publication of “Six Sonatas for Keyboard with Varied Reprises.” |
1768 | He succeeds Telemann as music director and cantor at the Johanneum Latin school in Hamburg. Composes liturgical music (cantatas) as well as instrumental works (symphonies, concerti, chamber music), large vocal works (Passion settings and oratorios), and occasional compositions for the city’s musical establishment. Organizes “Bach’s Private Concerts.” |
1775 | Oratorio “Die Israeliten in der Wüste” (“The Israelites in the Desert”). |
1779–87 | Publication of “Clavier Sonatas and Free Fantasies along with Divers Rondos […] for Experts and Amateurs.” |
1788 | Dies in Hamburg on December 14. |