Carl philipp emanuel bach
This position he owes mainly to his clavier sonatas, which mark an important epoch in the history of musical form. Beethoven expressed for his genius the most cordial admiration and regard. 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. Through the latter half of the 18 th century, the reputation of C.P.E. At the same time, his genius for instrumental composition was further stimulated by the career of Joseph Haydn. Next year he produced his oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wüste, a composition remarkable not only for its great beauty but for the resemblance of its plan to that Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah, and between 17 added over twenty settings of the Passion, and some seventy cantatas, litanies, motets, and other liturgical pieces. 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. Meanwhile he placed himself in the forefront of European critics by his Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen, a systematic and masterly treatise which by 1780 had reached its third edition, and which laid the foundation for the methods of Muzio Clementi and Cramer. But his main work was concentrated on the clavier, for which he composed, at this time, nearly two hundred sonatas and other solos, including the set Mit veränderten Reprisen (1760-1768) and a few of those für Kenner und Liebhaber. Bach wrote a fine setting of the Magnificat, in which he shows more traces than usual of his father's influence an Easter cantata several symphonies and concerted works at least three volumes of songs and a few secular cantatas and other occasional pieces. His reputation was established by the two sets of sonatas which he dedicated respectively to Frederick the Great and to the grand duke of Württemberg in 1746 he was promoted to the post of chamber musician, and for 22 years shared with Carl Heinrich Graun, Johann Joachim Quantz, and Johann Gottlieb Naumann the continued favour of the king.ĭuring his residence at Berlin, C.P.E. He was by this time one of the foremost clavier-players in Europe, and his compositions, which date from 1731, included about thirty sonatas and concert pieces for his favourite instrument. Bach obtained an appointment in the service of the crown prince of Prussia, on whose accession in 1740 he became a member of the royal household. In 1738 he took his degree, but at once abandoned all prospects of a legal career and determined to devote himself to music.Ī few months later C.P.E. Bach entered the Thomasschule in Leipzig, of which in 1723 his father had become Kantor, and continued his education as a student of jurisprudence at the Universities of Leipzig ( 1731) and of Frankfurt an der Oder ( 1735). Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Composer, Bach's Pupil)Ĭarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a German musician and composer, the second son of J.S.