HANSSLER CLASSIC Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Symphonies / Concertos/ Sonatas / Chamber Music Complete Edition

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born in Weimar on March 8, 1714, as the second (surviving) son of Johann Sebastian Bach. Once he said: In composition and in clavier-playing I have never had any teacher other than my father". CPE received his general education at the famous St Thomas School in Leipzig, where his father had of course assumed the post of Thomaskantor. His first appointment to the court orchestra in Ruppin became a serious proposition only after the prince had ascended the throne as King Frederick 11 (later "the Great") in 1740.