Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach , born with Weimar the March 8th 1714 and died in Hamburg the December 14th 1788, is a German Compositeur. Second wire survivor of Jean-Sebastien Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, it was recognized like a genius by some of its famous contemporaries, Ludwig van Beethoven in particular. It was called the Bach of Berlin and Hamburg .

Biography

Initiate very early with the music, it plays as a virtuoso of the Clavecin as of his childhood, but however follows studies of right to Leipzig (1734 to 1738), associated of course with the composition.

In 1738, the prince de Prusse proposes in Carl Philipp Emanuel to belong to its court, with Berlin, as a harpsichordist. But the musician is not estimated enough and it undergoes the jealousy of its " collègues" (inter alia, Johann Joachim Quantz, professor of flute of its Majesty). It will remain all the same more than 30 years in this place.

In 1744, after one period of medical care in Bohemia, Bach marries Johanna Maria Dannemann which will give him three children, all without descent. After the death of his father in 1750, Carl Philipp Emanuel, heir to part of the family goods, collect his half-brother Johann Christian. But he wearies court, where he is considered little. He will thus try to place himself at Zittau, then in Leipzig where he tries to succeed his father but in vain.

Lastly, in 1768, one year after the death of Georg Philipp Telemann, its godfather, Bach leaves his employer too miser with his taste (the musician is not underpaid, but the monarch had refused to refund with his musicians the damage of the Guerre Seven Year old) and is named Cantor in a small choral society. It also directs the music of the five principal churches of Hamburg. The task proves very difficult… it created: Jews in the desert

External bonds

  • Biography of CPE Bach

  • musicologie.org biography, catalogs works, bibliography, discography
  • Catalog of works of CPE Bach
  • Some partitions free of CPE Bach on site WIMA
  • Partition of the '' Sonate for toothing-stone in G major ''

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