Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Wikipedia)

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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 composer and musician, the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.

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[C. P. E.] Bach, armed with a recommendation by the Graun brothers (Johann Gottlieb and Carl Heinrich) and Sylvius Leopold Weiss, obtained an appointment at Berlin in the service of Crown Prince Frederick of Prussia, the future Frederick the Great.
[C. P. E.] Bach used for his performances instruments (clavichord and fortepiano) made by Gottfried Silbermann, at that time a well-known builder of keyboard instruments.
[C. P. E.] Bach was an influential pedagogue, writing the influential “Essay on the true art of playing keyboard instruments”, which would be studied by Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven, among others.

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