Pianist Danny Driver first gained attention in the UK by winning both the Royal Over-Seas League Competition Keyboard Award and the BBC Radio 2 Young Musician of the Year Competition in 2001.
Composition History
C.P.E. Bach moved to Hamburg in 1767 to assume the prestigious position of his godfather, Georg Philipp Telemann, after Telemann's death.
Composer Biography
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach, worked as court accompanist for Frederick the Great of Prussia for over 25 years, though he was not content in this position.
Compositional Technique
Emanuel Bach's music is characterized by its restlessness, often veering from one emotion to another within a single movement, juxtaposing introspection with anger, and using abrupt silences and harmonic surprises.
Composer's Artistic Vision
C.P.E. Bach believed that the ability to improvise was the most important indicator of a musician's potential as a composer, stating, 'A good future in composition can be assuredly predicted for anyone who can improvise'.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was an iconoclastic composer who rejected the Baroque aesthetic of his father, Johann Sebastian Bach, and looked towards the Romantic ethos of the nineteenth century.
Composer Biography
Frederick the Great, the King of Prussia, did not appreciate C.P.E. Bach's experimental style and kept his salary remarkably low compared to other court musicians.
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