Essays About C.P.E. Bach

C. P. E. Bach (II):Another Year, Another Anniversary

by David Schulenberg Four years ago, while many of us were celebrating the two hundredth birthdays of Chopin and Schumann, a smaller number were observing the three hundredth birthday of another composer-keyboardist: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, the oldest surviving son of… Read More

C. P. E. Bach at 300

by Annette Richards In the 300th anniversary year of the birth of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788), the music of this experimental, ambitious, and ever-elusive composer continues to baffle and amaze listeners, as it did many of Bach’s own contemporaries. Famously, the English music historian and traveling journalist Charles Burney… Read More