CPE Bach: like father, like son

Forward-thinking and unorthodox, CPE Bach was once regarded as the superior musician of the Bach dynasty. Guy Dammann argues for an underrated and overshadowed composer"Bach is the father. We are the children!" No one with a smattering of musical knowledge will be surprised by this remark of Mozart's, made to the Viennese aristocrat and influential patron Gottfried van Swieten. It is well known that Mozart held the composer in the highest esteem and, some would even argue that it was his interes...

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