Telemann Concerto In G Major TWV 52:G3 You may write to us at Shar Music, 2465 S Industrial Hwy, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. - You are responsible for the product until it reaches us. Georg Philipp Telemann wrote his Viola concerto in G major at some point between 1716 and 1721. The piece, now listed as TWV 51:G9 according to the catalogue of Telemann's work by Martin Ruhnke, is the first known concerto for viola and as such, it has an undeniable historical role in the consolidation of the viola as a soloist instrument. None of Telemann’s concertos is more beloved today than the G major viola concerto (TWV51:G9). It is not only the earliest known work of its type (probably composed during the decade 1715–25), but is also among the few 18th-century concertos to feature the viola in a soloistic role.
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Alessandro Rolla, Milan, c. 1820, on a stipple engraving by Luigi Rados (1773–1840). | |
Born | 22 April 1757 |
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Died | 15 September 1841 (aged 84) Milan |
Nationality | Italian |
Occupation | Composer |
Style | Early Romanticism |
Alessandro Rolla (Italian pronunciation: [alesˈsandro ˈrɔlla]; 22 April 1757 – 15 September 1841) was an Italian viola and violinvirtuoso, composer, conductor and teacher. His son, Antonio Rolla, was also a violin virtuoso and composer.
His fame now rests mainly as 'teacher of the great Paganini', yet his role was very important in the development of violin and viola technique. Some of the technical innovations that Paganini later used largely, such as left-hand pizzicato, chromatic ascending and descending scales, the use of very high positions on violin and viola, octave passages, were first introduced by Rolla.
- 4Bibliography
Life[edit]
Rolla was born in Pavia, Italy in 1757 and after his initial studies he moved to Milan where, from 1770 to 1778, he studied with Giovanni Andrea Fioroni, Maestro di cappella at Milan Cathedral, who was the most important musician in Milan after G. B. Sammartini. Charles Burney, in his musical tour in Italy, refers to Fioroni to acquire information about the Ambrosian Chant.
In 1772, he made his first public appearance as a soloist and composer performing 'the first viola concerto ever heard', as reported by a contemporary writer.[n 1] In 1782 he was appointed principal viola and the leader of the Ducale Orchestra in Parma, playing violin and viola until 1802.[n 2] In 1795 he received a visit by the father of the young Paganini, wishing him to teach his son.[1][n 3] After the death of the Duke of Parma, Rolla was offered a position as leader and orchestra director of the La Scala Orchestra in Milan in 1802.[2] Here the new governors, the French and later the Austrians, wanted to create the most important orchestra of Italy and therefore hired the best virtuosos of the time. Among his students during this period were Cesare Pugni, the prolific composer of ballet music, whom he taught the violin. Rolla would conduct many of Pugni's operas for La Scala, among them Il Disertore Svizzero (1831) and La Vendetta (1832).
Rolla remained at La Scala until 1833. There he was usually identified as the 'Primo violino, Capo d'orchestra' being so responsible for leading the orchestra.[3] He conducted the first Milanese performances of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito and The Marriage of Figaro and Beethoven's first symphonies. During this period he also conducted about eighteen operas of the then most loved opera composer, Gioachino Rossini, as well as operas by Gaetano Donizetti and Bellini, whom he got to know personally. He conducted the premiere of Norma, for example.
From 1811 he was also director of a Cultural Society where musicians would perform chamber music works by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, among others. In 1813 at this Cultural Society he gave private performances of Beethoven's 4th, 5th and 6th symphonies. He also frequented the aristocracy drawing rooms, meeting artists and poets, playing for them and dedicating several compositions to them. In 1808 the Conservatoire of Music in Milan was inaugurated and Rolla was appointed professor of violin and viola. In this capacity he composed many didactic works for his own pupils, graded in difficulty, many of which were published by the newly established publishing house Ricordi.[n 4]
Although involved in opera conducting in a period when in Italy opera was dominating over instrumental music, Rolla continued to compose, maintaining the Italian instrumental tradition high. He wrote about 500 works, from didactic compositions to sonatas, quartets, symphonies, concertos for violin, and at least 13 concertos and other works for viola and orchestra. Significant was his contribution to the dissemination of Beethoven's works in Italy and his familiarity with Beethoven and other Viennese composers is shown in his compositions. He continued to compose and play chamber music until few months before his death at 84.
Musical legacy[edit]
As an example of his fame in Italy and abroad, it is worth noting that during his lifetime his compositions were published by publishers such as Le Duc and Imbault in Paris, Artaria in Vienna, Breitkopf & Hartel in Leipzig, Monzani & Hill in London, André in Offenbach, Ricordi in Milan from 1809, and many more. This information about Rolla's life and multifarious musical activity helps us interpret his work. He was a musician of European vision, an innovator in his own field who was also able to learn from the best of his contemporaries. Also being so deeply immersed in opera environment undoubtedly had an influence on his style as a composer. He often used themes from operas for his variations.
Many of his works have been published in modern times and are therefore available. His works and performances as a violin and viola player, as well as conductor at La Scala, were often reviewed and appreciated in the Leipziger Zeitung. Rolla deserves a more important position in viola repertoire. His pedagogical works, conceived especially for the viola, are of special interest for students and teachers. They are often conceived in form of duos, lending themselves to be used also for chamber music education purposes as well.
Compositional style[edit]
Because of the technical innovations introduced, his work may be considered helpful for the development of viola technique. His style varies from the very melodic phrases, typically operatic in character, rich in fiorituras, to the extremely virtuoso writing, the style we are used to identify with Paganini. Ingredients of this technique are an ample use of double stops, fast passages in thirds and sixths, octaves from the first to the eighth position, very fast ascending and descending diatonic and chromatic scales, flying staccato, left-hand pizzicato. This intense virtuosity was a new innovation for viola technique, practically unheard of in previous times. Bertini, a historian of his time, in a dictionary of musicians reported that Rolla was prohibited from playing in public because women could not hear him without fainting or suffering attacks of nerves.
Bibliography[edit]
- Luigi Inzaghi and Luigi Alberto Bianchi, Alessandro Rolla – Catalogo tematico delle opere, Nuove Edizioni, 1981.
- Maurice Riley, The History of the Viola, Riley, 1980.
- Alessandro Rolla, Adagio e tema con variazioni per viola e orchestra,, edited by L. A. Bianchi, Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, 1979.
- Alessandro Rolla, Sonata in Do maggiore per viola e basso, edited by L. A. Bianchi, Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, 1982.
- Alessandro Rolla, Tre pezzi per viola sola, edited by L. A. Bianchi, Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, 1974.
- Scholes Percy A. (editor), Dr. Burney’s Musical Tours in Europe, vol.I and II; Oxford University Press, 1959.
- Giuseppe Bardone 'Convegno su A.Rolla al Collegio Ghislieri' in Academia edu 2016
Notes[edit]
- ^This is in fact false, as the first viola concerto was written several years earlier by Georg Philipp Telemann (Concerto in G major for Viola and String Orchestra).
- ^This was the most profitable period of Rolla's life, his most serene and creative years, in a very stimulating cultural and intellectual atmosphere; he was allowed to travel to conduct and perform as a soloist, became known also abroad and his works were published in Paris and Vienna.
- ^From Paganini's later letters there is evidence that they remained in contact and even played a quartet together. This relationship must have had an influence on Paganini, as far as his love for the viola is concerned, which in his maturity led him to compose works of great interest for the instrument, such as the concert piece Sonata per la Grand Viola e Orchestra, the Serenata and Terzettoconcertante, besides the Quartet No. 15 for Viola Concertante, violin, guitar and cello.
- ^Several of these esercizi are composed with progressive technical difficulties and in all keys. It is also curious to note that Rolla was a member of the adjudicating commission that rejected another famous Parmesan, Giuseppe Verdi, at the entry examination in the Conservatoire of the city, although he was the only one who expressed a favourable judgement about the young student.
References[edit]
- ^Dubourg, George (1852). The violin: some account of that leading instrument and its most eminent professors, from its earliest date to the present time. London: R. Cocks. p. 113.
- ^Anderson, Keith. 'Alessandro Rolla (1757–1841)'. Naxos. Archived from the original on November 6, 2012. Retrieved 1 December 2011.
- ^Gossett, Philip (2006). Divas and scholars: performing Italian opera. University of Chicago Press. p. 560. ISBN0-226-30482-5.
External links[edit]
- Free scores by Alessandro Rolla at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Rolla String Trio No.1-Sound-bites & Biography at Edition Silver Trust
- Gems Music Publications, a source for several Rolla scores, including the complete viola duets, viola solo works, some violin-viola duets, and viola concerti.
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788),[1] also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach,[2] was a German Classical period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. His second name was given in honor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach.
C. P. E. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father's Baroque style and the Classical style that followed it. His personal approach, an expressive and often turbulent one known as empfindsamer Stil or 'sensitive style', applied the principles of rhetoric and drama to musical structures. Bach's dynamism stands in deliberate contrast to the more mannered galant style also then in vogue.[3]
To distinguish him from his brother Johann Christian, the 'London Bach,' who at this time was music master to the Queen of England,[4] C. P. E. Bach was known as the 'Berlin Bach' during his residence in that city, and later as the 'Hamburg Bach' when he succeeded Telemann as Kapellmeister there.[5] To his contemporaries, he was known simply as Emanuel.[6]
- 1Life
- 2Works
- 4Legacy and musical style
Life[edit]
Early years: 1714–38[edit]
C. P. E. Bach was born on 8 March 1714 in Weimar to Johann Sebastian Bach and his first wife, Maria Barbara.[2] He was the composer's third son.[1] The composer Georg Philipp Telemann was his godfather. When he was ten years old, he entered the St. Thomas School at Leipzig,[2] where his father had become cantor in 1723.[1] He was one of four Bach children to become professional musicians; all four were trained in music almost entirely by their father. In an age of royal patronage, father and son alike knew that a university education helped prevent a professional musician from being treated as a servant. Carl, like his brothers, pursued advanced studies in jurisprudence at the University of Leipzig in 1731[2] and at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder in 1735.[1] In 1738, at the age of 24, he obtained his degree but never practiced law,[1] instead turning his attention immediately to music.[7]
Berlin years: 1738–68[edit]
A few months after graduation, Bach armed with a recommendation by the Graun brothers (Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich) and Sylvius Leopold Weiss,[8] obtained an appointment at Berlin[2] in the service of Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, the future Frederick the Great. Upon Frederick's accession in 1740, Bach became a member of the royal orchestra.[1] He was by this time one of the foremost clavier players in Europe, and his compositions, which date from 1731, include about thirty sonatas and concert pieces for harpsichord and clavichord.[1] During his time there, Berlin was a rich artistic environment, where Bach mixed with many accomplished musicians, including several notable former students of his father, and important literary figures, such as Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, with whom the composer would become close friends.
In Berlin, Bach continued to write numerous pieces for solo keyboard, including a series of character pieces, the so-called 'Berlin Portraits', including 'La Caroline'. His reputation was established by the two sets of sonatas which he published with dedications to Frederick the Great (1742) and to Charles Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1744).[1] In 1746, he was promoted to the post of chamber musician (Kammermusikus) and served the king alongside colleagues like Carl Heinrich Graun, Johann Joachim Quantz, and Franz Benda.[1]
The composer who most influenced Bach's maturing style was unquestionably his father. He drew creative inspiration from his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, then working in Hamburg, and from contemporaries like George Frideric Handel, Carl Heinrich Graun and Joseph Haydn. Bach's interest in all types of art led to influence from poets, playwrights and philosophers such as Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Moses Mendelssohn and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. Bach's work itself influenced the work of, among others, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Felix Mendelssohn.
During his residence in Berlin, Bach composed a setting of the Magnificat (1749), in which he shows more traces than usual of his father's influence;[1] an Easter cantata (1756); several symphonies and concert works; at least three volumes of songs, including the celebrated Gellert Songs; and a few secular cantatas and other occasional pieces.[1] But his main work was concentrated on the clavier, for which he composed, at this time, nearly two hundred sonatas and other solos, including the set Mit veränderten Reprisen (With Varied Reprises, 1760–1768).[1]
While in Berlin, Bach placed himself in the forefront of European music with a treatise, Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen (An Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments), immediately recognised as a definitive work on keyboard technique. 'Both Haydn and Beethoven swore by it.'[9] By 1780, the book was in its third edition and laid the foundation for the keyboard methods of Clementi and Cramer.[1] The essay lays out the fingering for each chord and some chord sequences. Bach's techniques continue to be employed today. The first part of the Essay contains a chapter explaining the various embellishments in work of the period, e.g., trills, turns, mordents, etc. The second part presents Bach's ideas on the art of figured bass and counterpoint, where he gives preference to the contrapuntal approach to harmonization over the newer ideas of Rameau's theory of harmony and root progressions.
Hamburg: 1768–88[edit]
In 1768,[1] after protracted negotiations,[2] Bach was permitted to relinquish his position in order to succeed his godfather Telemann as director of music (Kapellmeister)[1] at Hamburg. Upon his release from service at the court he was named court composer for Frederick's sister, Princess Anna Amalia. The title was honorary, but her patronage and interest in the oratorio genre may have played a role in nurturing the ambitious choral works that followed.[10]
Bach began to turn more of his energies to ecclesiastical and choral music in his new position. The job required the steady production of music for Protestant church services at the Michaeliskirche (Church of St. Michael) and elsewhere in Hamburg. The following year he produced his most ambitious work,[2] the oratorio Die Israeliten in der Wüste (The Israelites in the Desert), a composition remarkable not only for its great beauty but for the resemblance of its plan to that of Felix Mendelssohn's Elijah.[1] Between 1768 and 1788, he wrote twenty-one settings of the Passion, and some seventy cantatas, litanies, motets, and other liturgical pieces.[1] In Hamburg he also presented a number of works by contemporaries, including his father, Telemann, Graun, Handel, Haydn, Salieri and Johann David Holland (1746–1827).[11] Bach's choral output reached its apex in two works: the double chorus Heilig (Holy) of 1776, a setting of the seraph song from the throne scene in Isaiah, and the oratorioDie Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu (The Resurrection and Ascension of Jesus) of 1774–82, which sets a poetic Gospel harmonization by the poet Karl Wilhelm Ramler. Widespread admiration of Auferstehung led to three 1788 performances in Vienna sponsored by the Baron Gottfried van Swieten and conducted by Mozart.[12]
Bach married Johanna Maria Dannemann in 1744. Only three of their children lived to adulthood: Johann Adam (1745–89), Anna Carolina Philippina (1747–1804), and Johann Sebastian 'the Younger' (1748–78). None became musicians and Johann Sebastian, a promising painter, died in his late twenties during a 1778 trip to Italy.[13] Emanuel Bach died in Hamburg on 14 December 1788.[1] He was buried in the Michaeliskirche in Hamburg.
Works[edit]
Sonatas by C. P. E. Bach Performed by Alex Murray (flute) and Martha Goldstein (harpsichord) All performed by Alex Murray (traverso) and Martha Goldstein (harpsichord) Performed by Alex Murray (flute) and Martha Goldstein (harpsichord) Performed by Christopher Hinterhuber (piano) | |
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Symphonies[edit]
Among Bach's most popular and frequently recorded works are his symphonies.[14] While in Berlin, he wrote several string symphonies (Wq. 173–181), most of which were later revised to add parts for wind instruments. Of these, the E minor symphony, Wq. 178, has been particularly popular.
In Hamburg, Bach wrote a major set of six string symphonies for Gottfried van Swieten, Wq. 182. These works were not published in his lifetime (van Swieten, who had commissioned them to be written in a more 'difficult' style, preferred to retain them for private use),[15] but since their rediscovery, have become increasingly popular.
However, Bach's best works in the form (by his own estimation)[16] are assuredly the four Orchester-Sinfonien mit zwölf obligaten Stimmen, Wq. 183, which, as their title suggests, were written with obbligato wind parts that are integral to the texture, rather than being added on to an older string symphony. The first symphony (D major) in the set has been particularly popular, seeing a continuous performance and publication tradition all the way through the 19th century, which makes it the earliest such symphony.[16] Some of its more unusual features have been taken as characteristic of Bach's style:[17] the work, although it is in D major, begins on a D major chord, which then turns into a D dominant-seventh chord, outlining G major. In fact, there is no cadence on D major (D major is not 'confirmed' as the key of the piece) until the beginning of the recapitulation, quite late in the piece.
Concertos[edit]
Telemann Viola Concerto In G Major
Bach was a prolific writer of concertos, especially for keyboard. Like his father, he would often transcribe a concerto for various instruments, leading to problems determining which came first. For instance, the three cello concertos (Wq. 170–172), which are cornerstones of that instrument's repertoire, have often been considered to be transcriptions of the harpsichord versions, but recent research has suggested that they might be originally for cello.[18]
According to Bach, his finest keyboard concertos were the Sei concerti per il cembalo concertato, Wq. 43, which were written to be somewhat more appealing, and somewhat easier to play.[19] His other concertos were written for oboe, flute, and organ. Bach also wrote for more unusual combinations, including an E-flat major concerto for harpsichord and piano. Additionally, he wrote several sonatinas for one or more keyboards and orchestra.
Chamber music[edit]
Bach's chamber music forms something of a bridge between stereotypically Baroque and Classical forms. On the one hand, he wrote trio sonatas and solo sonatas with basso continuo (including ones for harp and viola da gamba); on the other, he wrote several accompanied sonatas for piano, violin, and cello, which are more or less early piano trios, and three very popular quartets for keyboard, flute, and viola. Bach also wrote one of the earliest pieces for solo flute, a sonata that is clearly influenced by his father's Partita in A minor for solo flute, BWV 1013.
Keyboard sonatas[edit]
Bach was a prolific writer of keyboard sonatas, many of which were intended for his favored instrument, the clavichord. During his lifetime, he published more collections of keyboard music than anything else, in the following collections:
- Sei sonate per cembalo che all' augusta maestà di Federico II, re di Prussia, 1742 ('Prussian' sonatas), Wq. 48.
- Sei sonate per cembalo, dedicate all' altezza serenissima di Carlo Eugenio, duca di Wirtemberg, 1744 ('Württemberg' sonatas), Wq. 49.
- Achtzehn Probe-Stücke in Sechs Sonaten, 1753 ('Probestücke' sonatas), Wq. 63.
- Sechs Sonaten fürs Clavier mit veränderten Reprisen, 1760 ('Reprisen' sonatas), Wq. 50.
- Fortsetzung von Sechs Sonaten fürs Clavier, 1761 ('Fortsetzung' sonatas), Wq. 51.
- Zweite Fortsetzung von Sechs Sonaten fürs Clavier, 1763 ('Zweite Fortsetzung' sonatas), Wq. 52.
- Sechs Leichte Clavier Sonaten, 1766 ('Leichte' sonatas), Wq. 53.
- Six Sonates pour le Clavecin à l'usage des Dames, 1770 ('Damen' sonatas), Wq. 54.
- Six collections of Clavier Sonaten für Kenner und Liebhaber, 1779–87 ('Kenner und Liebhaber' sonatas), Wq. 55–59, 61.
Much of Bach's energy during his last years was dedicated to the publication of the 'Kenner und Liebhaber' collections (which also include fantasias and rondos, see below).[20]
Wq. 64:1–6 are six sonatinas for keyboard, and Wq. 65:1–50 are fifty further keyboard sonatas. The Sonata in E flat major, Wq. 65:7, is based on Solo per il cembalo, BWV Anh. III 129, No. 27 in the second Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach.[21]
Other keyboard works[edit]
Easily Bach's best-known piece is the Solfeggietto, Wq. 117/2, to the point that the introduction to The Essential C.P.E. Bach is subtitled 'Beyond the Solfeggio in C Minor'.[22] Several of Bach's other miscellaneous keyboard works have gained fame, including the character piece La Caroline and the Fantasia in F-sharp minor, Wq. 67. Bach's fantasias, in particular, have been considered to show him at his most characteristic: they are full of dramatic silences, harmonic surprises, and perpetually varied figuration.
Bach published three major collections of miscellaneous keyboard works during his lifetime: the Clavierstücke verschiedener Art, Wq. 112 of 1765, and the Kurze und Leichte Clavierstücke collections, Wq. 113–14 of 1766. The former includes songs, fantasias, dances, sonatas, fugues, and even a symphony and concerto for solo piano (Bach was later to publish an entire collection of keyboard versions of his symphonies).
Bach also wrote a set of six organ sonatas for the organ of Frederick the Great's sister Anna Amalia.
Music for mechanical instruments[edit]
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Mechanical instruments such as the music box and musical clock were popular at the Prussian court, and C. P. E. Bach wrote thirty original compositions for these instruments, grouped together as Wq. 193.[23][24] At that time, Bach was court musician to King Frederick the Great at Potsdam; the King, who was intrigued by mechanically reproduced music, had mechanical organ clocks built for the City Castle of Potsdam and for the New Palais.[25]
Choral works[edit]
Throughout his lifetime, Bach worked on the Magnificat in D, Wq. 215. J. S. Bach was alive to hear it in 1749, and C. P. E. continued to revise and perform it as late as 1786. The work clearly shows the influence of J.S. Bach's own Magnificat, including the striking resemblance of the Deposuit movements in both works.
His other important choral works include the Heilig (German Sanctus), Wq. 217, which he performed together with the Credo from his Father's Mass in B minor, the oratorios Die Israeliten in der Wüste, Wq. 238 and Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu, Wq. 240, and 21 Passions.
Unpublished works[edit]
Many of C.P.E. Bach's compositions and original manuscripts were stored in the archive of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin where Bach lived 1738-68. This archive was packed during the Second World War and hidden to preserve it from Allied bombing, captured and sequestered by USSR forces in 1945, thus long believed lost or destroyed during the war.
The archive was discovered in Kiev, Ukraine, in 1999, returned to Berlin in 2001, and deposited in the Staatsbibliothek. It contained 5,100 musical compositions, none ever printed for the public, including 500 by 12 different members of the Bach family. [26]
Legacy and musical style[edit]
Through the later half of the 18th century, the reputation of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach stood very high,[1] surpassing that of his father.[9] Haydn and Beethoven admired him and 'avidly' collected his music.[9] Mozart said of him, 'Bach is the father, we are the children.'[1][29]
His work is full of invention and, most importantly, extreme unpredictability, and wide emotional range even within a single work, a style that may be categorized as empfindsamer Stil. It is no less sincere in thought than polished and felicitous in phrase.[1] His keyboard sonatas, for example, mark an important epoch in the history of musical form.[1] Lucid in style, delicate and tender in expression, they are even more notable for the freedom and variety of their structural design; they break away altogether from both the Italian and the Viennese schools, moving instead toward the cyclical and improvisatory forms that would become common several generations later.[1]
He was probably the first composer of eminence who made free use of harmonic color for its own sake.[1] In this way, he compares well with the most important representatives of the First Viennese School.[1] In fact, he exerted enormous influence on the North German School of composers, in particular Georg Anton Benda, Bernhard Joachim Hagen, Ernst Wilhelm Wolf, Johann Gottfried Müthel, and Friedrich Wilhelm Rust. His influence was not limited to his contemporaries and extended to Felix Mendelssohn and Carl Maria von Weber.[citation needed]
His name fell into neglect during the 19th century, with Robert Schumann notoriously opining that 'as a creative musician he remained very far behind his father';[30] others opined that he was 'a somewhat feeble imitator of his father's style'.[2] All the same, Johannes Brahms held him in high regard and edited some of his music. By the early 20th century, he was better regarded[1] but the revival of C. P. E. Bach's works has been chiefly underway since Helmuth Koch's recordings of his symphonies and Hugo Ruf's recordings of his keyboard sonatas in the 1960s. There is an ongoing project to record his complete works, led by Miklós Spányi [de] on the Swedish record label BIS. In 2014, the Croatian pianist Ana-Marija Markovina, in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute, the Bach-Archiv Leipzig, the Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig and Harvard University released a 26-CD box set of the complete works for solo piano on the German record label Hänssler Classic, performed on a modern Bösendorfer grand piano.
The works of C. P. E. Bach are known by 'Wq' numbers, from Alfred Wotquenne's 1906 catalogue, and by 'H' numbers from a catalogue by Eugene Helm (1989).
He was portrayed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner in the 1941 biopic of his brother Friedemann Bach.
The street Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Straße in Frankfurt (Oder) is named for him.
In 2015 the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Museum was opened in Hamburg.[31]
Anniversary year 2014[edit]
2014 marked the 300th anniversary of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's birth. All six German Bach cities—Hamburg, Potsdam, Berlin, Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, Leipzig, and Weimar—hosted concerts and other events to commemorate the anniversary.[32]
References[edit]
Notes
- ^ abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzEB (1911).
- ^ abcdefghEB (1878).
- ^Ratner (1980).
- ^Hubeart, T.L. 'A Tribute to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
- ^Allison, John. 'CPE Bach at 300: why he's more than just Johann Sebastian's son', The Telegraph, 26 January 2014.
- ^'Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach' ClassicalCat.net
- ^Thompson (1998) p. 32
- ^Percy M. Young, The Bachs, 1500–1850, p. 167
- ^ abcDammann, Guy (24 February 2011), The Guardian'CPE Bach: like father, like son'.
- ^Thompson (1998) pp. 30, 56
- ^Thompson (1998) p. 37
- ^Thompson (1998) pp. 47–48
- ^Thompson (1998) p. 98
- ^Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach The Complete Works, Preface: Symphonies.
- ^Complete Works, Vol. III/2, Preface.
- ^ abComplete Works, Vol. III/3, Preface.
- ^Richard Crocker, A History of Musical Style
- ^Complete Works, Vol. III/6, Preface.
- ^Complete Works, Vol. III/8, Preface.
- ^Complete Works, Vol. I/4, Preface.
- ^
- ^'Contents of The Essential C.P.E. Bach'. Via archive.org.
- ^'Cramer and Sturm Songs' in Complete Works, ser. VI, v. 2., p. xxiii (Packard Humanities Institute, 2009).
- ^Shepherd, John. Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Vol. II, p. 325 (A&C Black, 2003).
- ^Altman, Ludvig. 'A well-tempered musician's unfinished journey through life: oral history transcript', UC Berkeley, 1990, 125b. Via archive.org.
- ^https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/34549 ,https://www.ucis.pitt.edu/nceeer/2003_816_03_Grimsted.pdf
- ^Rochlitz 1824–1832, pp. 308 ff.
- ^Ottenberg (1987), p. 98 & 191.
- ^Rochlitz,[27] quoted in Ottenberg.[28]
- ^Hubeart Jr., T. L. (14 July 2006). A Tribute to C. P. E. Bach. Retrieved on 17 May 2008
- ^Stadt Hamburg, CPE Bach-Museum
- ^www.cpebach.de, Official Anniversary Website for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
Sources
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: The Complete Works, a complete edition of his music, has been in progress since 2005 and is somewhat more than halfway finished as of 2014.
- Baynes, T.S., ed. (1878), 'Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach' , Encyclopædia Britannica, 3 (9th ed.), New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, p. 196
- Ratner, Leonard G. (1980), Classic Music: Expression, Form and Style, New York: Schirmer
- Rochlitz, Friedrich (1824–1832), Für Freunde der Tonkunst (in German), 4 vols., Leipzig
- Thompson, Alton (1998). Formal Coherence in Emanuel Bach's Auferstehung (DMA thesis). Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University.
- Ottenberg, Hans-Günter (1987), Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, translated by Whitmore, Philip J., OUP, ISBN0-19-315246-0.
Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Hadow, William Henry (1911), 'Bach, Karl Philipp Emanuel', in Chisholm, Hugh (ed.), Encyclopædia Britannica, 3 (11th ed.), Cambridge University Press, pp. 130–131
Further reading[edit]
- The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (2001) contains a biography and list of his compositions.
- Oleskiewicz, Mary, ed. J.S. Bach and His Sons, vol. 11 of Bach Perspectives, Illinois University Press, 2017. See also the Web Companion, which shows images of historical keyboards he played, and places where C.P.E. Bach performed, at the Prussian Court.
- Oleskiewicz, Mary. “Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach and the Flute” Flutist Quarterly 39/no. 4 (Summer 2014): 20–30.
- Oleskiewicz, Mary. “Like Father, Like Son? Emanuel Bach and the Writing of Biography,” in Music and Its Questions: Essays in Honor of Peter Williams, edited by Thomas Donahue (Richmond, Va.: Organ Historical Society Press, 2007), 253–79.
- Schulenberg, David. The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2014).
- Schulenberg, David. Chronological list of all of C.P.E. Bach's Works
External links[edit]
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- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach at the Encyclopædia Britannica
- Free scores by Carl Philipp Emanual Bach at the International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP)
- Performances of some works at Musopen
- A Tribute to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, sketch of the composer's life with extensive references
- Complete Catalogue of C. P. E. Bach's oeuvre (French)
- Finding the Lost Manuscripts of C.P.E. Bach at the Wayback Machine (archived 16 July 2008) Greater Boston Arts
- 'Bach, Karl Philipp Emanuel' . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – The Complete Works, Packard Humanities Institute, published for the 300th anniversary year, 2014
- Free scores by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach in the Choral Public Domain Library (ChoralWiki)
- Trio sonata in C minor, H. 579, first edition, Sibley Music Library
- Fantasia e fuga in C minor, H. 75.5, for keyboard instrument, Sibley Music Library
- 'Hamburger Sonata Wq. 133' on YouTube, played by Eckhart Duo