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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Personb. 1714 · Weimar, Germany, Germany

classicalbaroqueclassical piano

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) was a German composer and keyboard virtuoso whose work bridged the late Baroque and early Classical eras. The second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach, he served as court harpsichordist to Frederick the Great in Berlin for nearly three decades before becoming music director of Hamburg’s five principal churches. His keyboard sonatas, concertos, and symphonies are noted for their expressive range, dramatic contrasts, and innovative formal structures that influenced Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. C. P. E. Bach also authored the influential treatise “Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments,” which remained a standard pedagogical text well into the nineteenth century.