Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

J. S. Bach's musician son explains the technique for performing eighteenth-century compositions, discussing fingering, embellishments, bass, and accompaniment

Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments

Tomaso Albinoni

Leonardo Leo

Christoph Graupner

1740 : for Mixed Voices, 2 Oboes, 2 Violins, Viola, and Continuo

Two Cantatas for Holy Week

A Cello solo with Piano Accompaniment composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

For Cello and Piano

Cello Concerto in A Minor

Rachel W. Wade

A Facsimile of the Edition by Schniebes, Hamburg, 1790

The Catalog of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's Estate

Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Carl Maria von Weber

Joseph Haydn

Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck

Ludwig Nohl

Letters of Distinguished Musicians: Gluck, Haydn, P. E. Bach, Weber, Mendelssohn

Magnificat, for soli, chorus, and orchestra

für Kenner und Liebhaber

Die sechs Sammlungen von Sonaten, Freien Fantasien und Rondos

in six volumes

The collected works for solo keyboard

Oratorium Für 4 Solisten, Gemischten Chor und Orchester

Die Israeliten in Der Wüste

Critical edition of C.P.E. Bach's Passion according to St. Luke (1783), H 796.

Passion According to St. Luke (1783)

Critical edition of C.P.E. Bach's Passion according to St. John (1788), H 801.

Passion According to St. John (1788)

Howard Ferguson

C.P.E. Bach's Selected Keyboard Works have been published as part of ABRSM's 'Signature' Series - a series of authoritative performing editions of standard keyboard works, prepared from original sources by leading scholars. Includes informative introductions and performance notes.

Selected Keyboard Works

C.P.E. Bach

"The Letters of C.P.E Bach" is the first complete edition of the letters to appear in a single volume in any language. Very few of the letters have appeared previously in English translation. Bach's letters are arguably the most significant extant collection by an eighteenth-century composer, with the notable exception of Mozart's. They give a fascinating picture of the most famous son of J.S. Bach hard at work publishing his own music, debating aesthetic matters, and championing the music and teachings of his father. Most of the letters date from the last twenty years of Bach's life when he was working as music director of the five main churches in Hamburg. Almost 80 per cent are addressed to five people: his printer in Leipzig, Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf; his friend and agent in Gottingen, Johann Nikolaus Forkel; the Viennese music publisher, Artaria; the Schwerin organist and collector of Bach's music, Johann Jacob Heinrich Westphal; and Georg Philipp Telemann's grandson, Georg Michael, who served as one of the interim music directors in Hamburg before Bach's arrival. The literary personalities including Charles Burney, Karl Wilhelm Ramler, Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg, Johann Kaspar Lavater, and Johann Joachim Eschenburg. The letters fall into three phases. In the first period, Bach is learning and struggling with his his new responsibilities in Hamburg. The second and largest phase begins in 1773 and is dominated by the collaboration between Bach, as publisher of his own works, and Breitkopf, as printer of those works. The third period is characterized by Bach's painstaking final preparations of his estate and legacy during the last two years of his life. Bach's short transactional letters, chronicling his day-to-day business affairs, are balanced by longer, reflective ones that reveal more of Bachs personality and opinions than previous interpretations have suggested.

The Letters of C.P.E. Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach edition: Concertos and sonatinas (2 v.)

A collection of piano solos composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

For Piano

Sonatas, Fantasias & Rondos, Volume I

A collection of Intermediate / Advanced piano solos composed by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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