Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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 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. 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. His dynamism stands in deliberate contrast to the more mannered galant style also then in vogue.To distinguish him from his brother Johann Christian, the "London Bach", who at this time was music master to Queen Charlotte of Great Britain, C. P. E. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach has received more than 913,092 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach is the 64th most popular composer (down from 63rd in 2019), the 150th most popular biography from Germany (down from 146th 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.