Title: | Six Keyboard Sonatas, Op.17 |
Otros títulos: | Seis Sonatas para Teclado, Op.17 Sonatas para Teclado |
Intérprete/ Colaborador: | Johann Christian Bach; Jidit Péteri |
Código CDU: | B.J.C.03 |
Forma Musical: | Sonatas (Harpsichord) |
Abstract: | In general, the end of the Baroque period is symbolically connected by musicologists to 1750, the year when Bach died. It has also a symbolic value in that Bach's four composer-sons - Wilhelm Friedemann (1710-1784), Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-1788). Johann Christoph Friedrich (1732-1795) and Johann Chris¬tian (1735-1782) played an outstanding role in the preparation of the new style, the Viennese classicism. The four sons were four quite different personalities and they became separated from one another in a geographical sense, as well. The youngest of them, Johann Christian had the most active and, in his own era the most successful career. While his brothers were working in Germany through¬out their whole lives, he became a real cosmopolitan. When his father died, Johann Christian was only 15 years old therefore he continued his musical studies in Berlin at his half-brother. Carl Philipp Emanuel who had been the court harpsichordist of Frederick the Great. The young Johann Christian ... |