C.P.E. Bach is most well known for his instrumental works, of which his most prolific genre is the works for solo keyboard with over 400 pie...

In the period between the Baroque and Classical eras there was a short period of transition that began in France and spread throughout  Euro...

Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach spent thirty yeas in the employ of Frederick The Great, king of Prussia. His duties were not over taxing, (he pla...

The word symphony is derived from two Greek words that roughly mean 'an agreeable, concerted and harmonious sound'. As far back as t...

C.P.E. Bach, known as Emmanuel to his friends, left the employ of Frederick The Great in 1768 after spending 30 years in Berlin. The years...

Bach was in the employ of Frederick The Great's court in Berlin for thirty years as court harpsichordist. In 1768 he left his post in Be...

C.P.E Bach composed music that was at the forefront in the development of music that strayed away from the more formal Baroque style of hi...

The influence of C.P.E. Bach on composers of his own era and of other generations is large. Mozart said about him that "He is the fath...

The music of C.P.E. Bach had a profound effect on the younger composers of his time, namely Mozart and Haydn . It is one of the ironies of...

Mozart said of C.P.E. Bach, "He is the father, we are the children", high praise indeed from Mozart who didn't have much ni...

Another composition by J.S. Bach's second oldest son, C.P.E. Bach .  This is a piece for the clavichord, a type of keyboard instrume...