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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714–1788) was a German composer, the second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach. After almost thirty years as harpsichordist to Frederick the Great in Berlin, he succeeded Telemann in 1768 as director of music of Hamburg's five main churches. His expressive keyboard works and his treatise on keyboard playing influenced Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven.
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- The Epoch Institute. (2026). Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/carl-philipp-emanuel-bach
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