Bach is sometimes … Bach’s many compositions include religious music (e.g., a Magnificat, 22 Passions), symphonies, concerti (for flute, harpsichord, piano, harpsichord and piano, organ, oboe), organ sonatas, chamber music, and songs. Marches & polonaises for keyboard (BWV Anh. Bach in an album of Carl Friedrich Cramer (June 9, 1774). of H.587; J. C. Bach's authorship uncertain H.544 – Violin Sonata: E major – vn kbd – – J. C. Bach's authorship uncertain H.545 – Flute Sonata in E-flat major C.P.E. The music of his Berlin period is comparatively old-fashioned, because of the preferences of his royal employer. • H 1. III 122–125) Imitative harmonization of the family name, B-A-C-H, autograph entry by C.P.E. CPE Bach was once more famous than his father, the great JS Bach. Bach’s only choral composition from his Berlin years, the Magnificat of 1749, is probably his most familiar work today. of H.570; J. C. Bach's authorship uncertain H.542.5 – Violin Sonata: G minor 1734 vn kbd – – formerly attributed to Johann Sebastian Bach as BWV 1020 H.543 – Violin Sonata : B ♭ major 1755 vn kbd – – arr. CPE Bach: top ten pieces. arr. Standing in the shadow of his famous father, Johann Sebastian Bach, C.P.E. In one sense it stands as a homage to his father’s own Magnificat: in the rushing D major scales of the opening, for instance, or the near-verbatim quotations in the ‘Fecit potentiam’ and ‘Deposuit’. As a German composer whose early works exemplified the grandeur of Baroque style and whose subsequent works evolved into pure Classicism, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s keyboard music offers a charming and historical look into the musical transition between two great eras of music history. It is also his most eclectic. Find Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach composition information on AllMusic His second name was given in honor of his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Johann Sebastian Bach. To mark the younger Bach's tercentenary, Ivan Hewett picks 10 pieces that demonstrate his genius 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 musician and composer, the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. Two early sets of keyboard sonatas, the "Prussian" Sonatas (1740) and the "Württemberg" Sonatas (1743), show that by the age of 30 Bach had achieved a fully mature style of composition, less rigorous in its contrapuntal organization than that of his father but with considerable power of invention and formal design and with evident stress on bringing to keyboard composition some of the intense expressivity …