Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Edition

The aim of this ten volume series is to publish the complete works of C.P.E. Bach in a form that most closely represents his intentions. Editorial additions to the primary source of each work have been made only when demanded by the necessity for musical clarity. Only works known to be authentic have been included.

The second son of Johann Sebastian Bach, C.P.E. Bach was an important composer in his own right, as well as a writer and performer on keyboard instruments. He composed roughly a thousand works in all the leading genres of the period, with the exception of opera, and Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven all acknowledged his influence. He was also the author of a two-volume encyclopedic book about performance on keyboard instrument. C.P.E. Bach and his music have always been the subject of significant scholarship and publication but interest has sharply increased over the past two or three decades from performers as well as music historians. This volume incorporates important writings not only on the composer and his chief works but also on theoretical issues and performance questions. The focus throughout is on relatively recent scholarship otherwise available only in hard-to-access sources.

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

J. S. Bach's musician son explains the technique for performing eighteenth-century compositions, discussing fingering, embellishments, bass, and accompaniment