CPE Bach - Sonata in f minor, Wq63 no.6.
To accompany the Essay he wrote a heterogeneous set of sonatas and sonatinas (Wq 63) which range from innocuous galanterie to some of his most prophetic and visionary music. Most visionary of all is the finale of the F minor sonata, No. 6, a violent, impassioned fantasia whose melodies seem to evoke heightened speech, their changes of pace and dramatic hesitations imitating an actor's.
While C.P.E. Bach’s progressive and uniquely individual style was most pronounced in his keyboard Sonatas and certain Symphonies, his Concertos for various instruments also contain many features that seize the attention of the listener with their great originality. After leaving the employ of King Frederick the Great of Prussia and settling in Hamburg, Bach was no longer restricted by the.
The many ramifications of Bach's comprehensive essay have been neatly explained and annotated in a manner that make the Essay a valuable reference work and an interesting venture in musical literature and historical. The translator, William J. Mitchell, brings to his task a long-standing familiarity with C. P. e. Bach. An Associate Professor of Music at Columbia University, he is a specialist.
Frederick II later inherited the throne of Berlin, and CPE Bach went to be his keyboard player. When Frederick had private home concertos in his palace at Potsdam, Bach accompanied him on continuo. It is believed that CPE Bach composed flute sonatas and concertos for Frederick to play at such functions. Frederick II was a huge advocate of music until the Seven Years’ War ended in 1763.
The four sonatas Wq 75-78 composed in 1763 represent the focus of CPE Bach’s oeuvre for violin and obbligato keyboard instrument. Even though certain compositional details still reveal the connection to the trio sonata, the two parts have freed themselves more decidedly in terms of their respective instrumental idiom. These progressive traits, the sensible musical language and abruptly.
This volume contains music written to accompany Bach's Essay on the True Manner of Playing Keyboard Instruments, published in 1753. Composed for students, the music certainly doesn't sound like mere practice pieces. While it may lack some of C.P.E. Bach's signature quirky sound, which is more apparent in other works, it ranks with some of his finest. Interestingly, he listed these as 18.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was Johann Sebastian Bach’s second and most successful son. He was a transitional figure between the Baroque and the Classicism, and greatly influenced Mozart and Beethoven, partly thanks to his keyboard sonatas. In the 18th century, the cello concerto was still a fairly new genre, and Boccherini and Haydn had not yet written their contributions at the point when C.