Stylistically distant from his father's rigorous polyphony, C.P.E. Bach finally got himself released from Frederick's service in 1768 in order to succeed Telemann as cantor at the Johanneum in Hamburg, also serving as music director for the city's five major churches he held this post until his death. Bach found a select audience for his remarkable and experimental series of keyboard works such as the so-called "Prussian" and "Württemberg" sonatas (composed in the early 1740s) and the Sonatas with Varied Repeats (1760). He made several attempts to find a new position, but the stress of the king's disfavor was partially relieved in 1756 when Frederick became distracted by the Seven Years' War and was frequently away from the court. Little of this was heard at court, where Bach accompanied the flutist-king in one reactionary concerto after another by Quantz. Here, he was first exposed to Italian opera seria, and its dramatic style infiltrated his instrumental music. He graduated in 1734 but remained in that town giving keyboard lessons, involving himself in public concerts, and learning the composer's craft.īy 1740, Bach was in Berlin as harpsichordist to Frederick the Great of Prussia. An exceptional student in areas other than music, he enrolled at the University of Leipzig in 1731 to study law, then transferred to the University of Frankfurt an der Oder.
Bach could play his father's technically demanding keyboard pieces at sight by the time he was seven. His music, unlike that of his father or that of the master he influenced, Haydn, did not define an era so much as reveal a deeply personal response to the musical conventions of his time.Ĭ.P.E.
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel was the most innovative and idiosyncratic member of an extremely talented musical family.
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