C.P.E. Bach Studies [Hardcover]

A collection of the latest work by distinguished scholars on C. P. E. Bach.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.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.Focusing on his activity in Hamburg from 1767 until his death in 1788, this collection of essays explores the literary and aesthetic contexts of C.P.E. Bach's later work. It includes essays on Bach's position on contemporary concepts of responsiveness, his sacred music and views on religion, and on the contemporary and posthumous reception of his music. The volume seeks to re-establish the centrality of Bach's music in late 18th-century German culture.Introduction; 1. Diderot's Paradoxe and C. P. E. Bach's Empfindungen Richard Kramer; 2. Dark fantasies and the dawn of the self: Gerstenberg's monologues for C. P. E. Bach's C Minor Fantasia Tobias Plebuch; 3. Sources of C. P. E. Bach's solo keyboard works in the Sing-Akademie archives Darrell M. Berg; 4. Reason and revelation in C. P. E. Bach's Resurrection Oratorio Richard Will;l#‡