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The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Hardcover)
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The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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In this first comprehensive examination of the music of the most
prolific Bach son, David Schulenberg offers new perspectives on the
career, style, and originality of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Of
Bach's four sons who became composers, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
(1714-88) was the most prolific, the most original, and the most
influential both during and after his lifetime. This is the first
comprehensive study of his music, examining not only the famous
keyboard sonatas and concertos but also the songs, the chamber
music, and the sacred works, many of which resurfaced only recently
and have not previously been evaluated. A compositional
biography,the book surveys C. P. E. Bach's extensive output of
nearly a thousand works while tracing his musical development-from
his student days at Leipzig and Frankfurt (Oder), through his
nearly three decades as court musician to Prussian King Frederick
"the Great," to his final twenty years as cantor and music director
at Hamburg. David Schulenberg, author of important books on the
music of J. S. Bach and his first son, W. F. Bach, here considers
the legacy of the second son from a compelling new perspective.
Focusing on C. P. E. Bach's compositional choices within his social
and historical context, Schulenberg shows how C. P. E. Bach
deliberately avoided his father's style whileborrowing from the
manner of his Berlin colleagues, who were themselves inspired by
Italian opera. Schulenberg also shows how C. P. E. Bach, now best
known for his virtuoso keyboard works, responded to changing
cultural and aesthetic trends by refashioning himself as a writer
of vocal music and popular chamber compositions. Audio versions of
the book's musical examples, as well as further examples and
supplementary tables and texts, are available on a companion
website. David Schulenberg is professor of music at Wagner College
and teaches historical performance at the Juilliard School. He is
the author of The Music of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (University of
Rochester Press, 2010).
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