C.P.E. Bach Studies

Annette Richards

Cambridge University Press, Aug 3, 2006 - Music - 268 pages

This collection of essays explores the literary and aesthetic contexts of C. P. E. Bach's later work, focussing on his activity in Hamburg from 1767 until his death in 1788. It includes essays on Bach's position on contemporary concepts of sensibility, his sacred music and views on religion, and on the contemporary and posthumous reception of his music. This volume, the first English-language collection of essays devoted to C. P. E. Bach since 1988, seeks to re-establish the centrality of Bach's music in late 18th-century German culture.

Contents

• I: 6
• II: 25
• III: 67
• IV: 84
• V: 116
• VI: 149
• VII: 173
• VIII: 202
• IX: 221

About the author

Annette Richards is Associate Professor of Music and University Organist at Cornell University. She is the author of The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque (Cambridge, 2001), and co-editor of Acting on the Past: Historical Performance Across the Disciplines (2000). An active performer, she has won prizes at the Dublin International Organ Competition and the Bruges Early Music Festival, and has recorded the complete works of Melchior Schildt at the historic organ in Roskilde Cathedral.

Bibliographic information

• Title: C.P.E. Bach Studies; Cambridge Composer Studies
• Editor: Annette Richards
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0521836298, 9780521836296
• Length: 268 pages
• Subjects: Music / General; Music / History & Criticism