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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) - more commonly known as C.P.E. Bach - was a German musician and composer of the early Classical period.

The second of eleven sons of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, C.P.E. Bach was born in Weimar on 8th March 1714. He was one of the founders of the Classical style, composing in the and periods.

Through the latter half of the eighteenth century, his reputation was very high. This was mainly because of his clavier sonatas, which marked an important development in the history of musical form. Lucid in style, delicate and tender in expression, they are even more notable for the freedom and variety of their structural design; they break away altogether from the exact formal antithesis which, with the composers of the , had hardened into convention, and substitute the wider and more flexible outline which the great showed to be capable of almost infinite development.
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  • Grosseteste

    I'd never come across it until Last.fm, and the Internet generally. I'm fairly sure that it's not common in the U.K. -- is it U.S.?

    19 days ago

  • tihsymtae

    I agree with the criticism of describing classical music (in the broad sense) erudite. But it is a common use of the word.

    23 days ago

  • GRAMPAPROG

    v This.

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  • Grosseteste

    What a self-congratulatory, smug, and inaccurate use of the word "erudite".... Music can't be erudite, and enjoying this or any kind of music doesn't require erudition. Nor need the composers or performers be erudite (the former sometimes were, the latter more rarely).

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  • Forteski

    Erudite music group: http://www.last.fm/group/Erudite+Music

    January 2012

  • Vaaram

    ach wie schön... schmelz...

    November 2011

  • Olli6

    great

    November 2011

  • Antinomie__

    Nice music

    September 2011
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