


His dynamism stands in deliberate contrast to the more mannered galant style also then in vogue.

His personal approach, an expressive and often turbulent one known as empfindsamer Stil or ' sensitive style', applied the principles of rhetoric and drama to musical structures. Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his father's Baroque style and the Classical style that followed it. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), also formerly spelled Karl Philipp Emmanuel Bach, and commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German Classical period composer and musician, the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.Ĭ.
