Christopher Hogwood on Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, son of J.S. Bach
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- Ahead of his concert of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach music, Christopher Hogwood, one of the most reputed representatives of historically correct performances, gives us his thoughts about this son the great John Sebastian Bach.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, considered in his generation as the most successful composer of the Bach family, spent most of his life in Berlin at the court of Frederic the Great. His fame already during his life resided mainly in that he was considered a great teacher, author of the famous book „Versuch über die wahre Art Clavier zu spielen“ („Essay on the True Way to play the Piano“). Beyond that he was famed to be an outstanding improviser, surpassing all rivals. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was especially esteemed by great composers such as Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert who all confessed to have learned from him. Yet he never founded any school. His way of composing is singular, intelectual, often somewhat hard edged, always stern, even when he was being witty. It‘s music for intelligent listeners and outstanding musicians because, very much like Beethoven, he never had any regards for the instrument he was writing for.
This is captivating. Not many people can speak so well about style. Thanks a lot for the upload !
So much underrated composer, he was for many the most gifted son of the great Johann. Nowadays I wouldn't say he's not popular in Germany.
I guess hindsight is 20/20
Excellent and very interesting - I recently bought a box set of his works - definitely a unique composer. The symphonies and concertos are especially good
I thought this a very succinct overview of C P E Bach's work and reputation and it was a pleasure to listen to. I wouldn't take issue with the general thrust, but here are a couple of thoughts I wanted to add. Christopher Hogwood's description of C P E Bach's style struck me as slightly misleading in the sense that he suggests there is 'one' style. But there is considerable variety: if you listen for example to the 23 character pieces (the Oxford edition of these is edited by CH), you can hear the extraordinary range of approaches and styles to the short keyboard piece. There are historical parodies, galant music, examples of empfindsame Stil, study-like pieces, illustrtrative music in the manner of Couperin, etc. And the suggestion that C P E is a 'serious' composer misses the strong element of humour - often grotesque humour - in his music.
For me he is a composer whose taste for intellectual abstraction will always deny him a popular audience. Rather like Max Reger in a way. And that's just what attracts me to his music.
Very enlightening and didactic commentary on a fascinating composed so unjustly underrated.
A very succinct description of C.P.E. Bach's unique music, thank you.
Wonderfully spoken!
marvelous lucid musical thinking
thanks for sharing
Hogwood remains the reference in Baroque Music. A capital Conductor and Music researcher, he changed the approach to Baroque Music. There's a previous and then an after Hogwood. His good taste, his balance and sophistication lead to the most elegant Baroque Music ever played. He had also the ability to surround himself with so excellent musicians as Monica Huggett, Catherine Macintosh, Alison Bury, Simon Standage, Susan Sheppard and Christophe Rousset or Christophe Coin...and it all resulted in some of the best Vivaldi and Bach recordings. His Mozart Concerts with Robert Levin are also some of the best. He'll keep associated with the equally excellent L'oiseau Lyre Decca recordings. I came to love Baroque Music through Hogwood and his Academy of Ancient Music. So, what to say⁉️ ➖for a professional violinist I knew, Hogwood was kind of a god. And so he shall be remembered, with Jeanne Lamon, surely the greatest Baroque Music Conductors. Don't miss Hogwood, his recordings are superb. A fab music. 🎵🎶💎👍❤️
Thanks for posting ! Such an interesting talk !
I enjoyed this.
As a keyboard composer, Emanuel was one of the greatest.
Fascinating. In this age of tweets and fake news, at least one can find serious discussions like this on UA-cam.
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I enjoyed it too
i read somewhere that in the 18th century when they referred to The Great Bach, they ALWAYS meant C P E.
J S was regarded as old fashioned and more esteemed as an organist than as a composer
What a great description of CPE Bach's music and style. CH talks so well. A pity he's dead.
great interview, such an interesting subject! thank you
How interesting
CPE is definitely *not* considered as less successful. Plain nonsense.
Yeah I was baffled at how the interviewer could claim that.
Well, I certainly seem to hear CPE Bach's influence in Haydn's earlier symphonies... less so with Mozart
I love this
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An interesting viewpoint; I can hear absolutely nothing of CPE in Mozart - synthesised or not - a composer who normally absorbed influences very readily.
CPE’s highly personal empfindsamer Stil, with it’s emphasis on spiky, fragmentary, contrasting emotions; sharp contrasts in dynamics; lyrical passages contrasting with frenzied scalic runs and arpeggios, and sighing appoggiature for example, all seem a world away from Mozart’s perfectly balanced and poised perfection.
Have I missed something?
@@elaineblackhurst1509 If you listen to Mozart's early symphonies, they have some of the quirky rhythms and harmonies of CPE.
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I know all 41 of Mozart’s symphonies - and I know you do as well; I’m a little surprised at your comment as I can hear almost nothing of CPE’s North German, jagged and spiky, fragmentary, wild and eccentric, empfindsamer Stil in Mozart’s Austrian - but internationally influenced - Classical style with its poised, elegant, balanced, and beautiful, long cantabile lines.
Perhaps it’s just me!
@@elaineblackhurst1509 it’s just you
why did I never see this when I was doing my thesis >:(
Historically informed, not historically correct.