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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

1714 - 1788

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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Baroque and Classical period composer and musician, the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara 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. He was the principal representative of the empfindsamer Stil or 'sensitive style'. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach has received more than 1,092,705 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is the 68th most popular composer (down from 64th in 2019), the 175th most popular biography from Germany (down from 150th in 2019) and the 15th most popular German Composer.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is most famous for being the son of Johann Sebastian Bach. He was a composer and harpsichordist.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ranks 68 out of 1,451. Before him are Johann Christian Bach, Dieterich Buxtehude, Jules Massenet, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Gounod, and Anton Webern. After him are Alessandro Scarlatti, John Williams, Stefania Turkewich, Alexander Scriabin, Gabriel Fauré, and Franz Lehár.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1714, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ranks 2. Before him is Christoph Willibald Gluck. After him are Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, Étienne Bonnot de Condillac, Joseph I of Portugal, Claude Joseph Vernet, Alaungpaya, Niccolò Jommelli, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Nikolaus I, Prince Esterházy, Pontiac, and Duke Anthony Ulrich of Brunswick. Among people deceased in 1788, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ranks 2. Before him is Charles III of Spain. After him are Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Charles Edward Stuart, Thomas Gainsborough, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse, Johann Georg Hamann, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, José, Prince of Brazil, and Infante Gabriel of Spain.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ranks 175 out of 7,253. Before him are Georg Simmel (1858), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900), Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor (990), Hans Holbein the Younger (1497), Philip Melanchthon (1497), and Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia (1361). After him are Alexander Van der Bellen (1944), Friedrich Fröbel (1782), Olaf Scholz (1958), Walter Model (1891), Rudolf Höss (1901), and Erich Raeder (1876).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach ranks 15. Before him are Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Richard Strauss (1864), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), Carl Orff (1895), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), and Johann Christian Bach (1735). After him are Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710), Hans Zimmer (1957), Johann Pachelbel (1653), Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928), Paul Hindemith (1895), and Heinrich Schütz (1585).

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