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CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH

8thMarch 1714 --- 14thDecember 1788

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was a german musician and composer,  the second surviving son Johann Sebastian Bach,  he was born at Weimar on March 14th,
1714.   When he was ten  years old he  entered the  Thomasschule at Leipzig,  of which in 1723 his father become cantor,   and continued his education as a
student of jurisprudence at the universites of Leizig (1731) and of Frankfurt-on-the-Order (1735).

In 1738 he took his degree, but at once abandoned all propects of a legal career and determined to devote himself to music. A few months later he obtained
an appointmemt in the service of the crown prince of Prussia on whose accession in 1740 he became a member of the royal household. During his residence
at Berlin, he wrote a fine setting of the Magnificat (1749), in which he shows more traces then usual of his father's influence, an Easter cantata (1756).

He wrote serveral symphonies and concerto works, at least three volumes of songs Geistliche Oden und Lieder to words by Gellert (1758), Oden mit Melodien
(1762),   and Sing-Oden (1766)  and a few  secular  cantatas and other pieces d'occasion.   But his main work  was concentrated on the clavier,   for which he
composed at this time nearly 200 sonatas and other solos including the set Mitveranderten Reprisen (1760-68) and a few of those Fur Kenner und Liebhaber.

Meanwhile he  placed  himself in the  forefront of European critics  by his Versuch uber die wahre  Art das Clavier zu Liebhaber.   In 1768 he  succeeded Georg
Philipp Telemann as Kapellmeister at Hamburg,   and in consequence of his new office  began to turn his  attention more towards church music. The next year
he produced his  oratorio Die Israliten in der Wuste and between  1769 and 1788 added over 20 settings of the Passion,   a second oratorio  Die Auferstehung
und Himmelfahrt Jesu (1777), and some 70 cantatas, litanies, motes and other liturgical pieces.

At the same time his genius  for instrumental composition was  further stimulated by the career of Hayden  to whom he sent a letter of  high appreciation and
the climax of his art was reached in the six  volumes of sonatas Fur Kenner und Liebhaber,  to which he devoted the best work of his last ten years. He died at
Hamburg on December 4th 1788.

Copyright 1953` Encyclopaedia Britannica

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