Listen - C P E Bach: Allegro Pomposo (Keyboard Sonata In B flat, Wq 65 No 34) At the age of twenty-four he obtained his degree, but never practiced law, instead turning his attention to music, body and soul. Carl pursued advanced studies in jurisprudence at Leipzig University in 1731 and at Frankfurt-on-the-Oder in 1735. He was one of four Bach children to become professional musicians indeed, all four were trained by their father, and in an age of royal patronage, father and son alike knew that a university education helped prevent a professional musician from being treated as a servant.
When he was ten he entered the St Thomas School in Leipzig, where his father had become cantor in 1723. The renowned contemporary composer Georg Philipp Telemann was his godfather. Born on 8 March 1714 in Weimar, to Johann Sebastian Bach and his first wife Maria Barbara, he was their fifth child and third son. The life of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the most eminent successor of his father's patrimony, can be divided into three parts: his early life, the Berlin years and the Hamburg years. an exhilarating collection of C P E Bach's works. An Epic Undertaking Hänssler Classic's C P E Bach edition, recommended by GERALD FENECH
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