He declined an offer from Heinrich Christian von Keyserlingk, a son of Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk, who suggested that he accompany him on an educational trip. In 1738 he was appointed harpsichordist to Ruppin in the chapel of the Prussian Crown Prince Friedrich. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach sits at the harpsichord. However, he seems to have placed little value on his first attempts at composition, at least as illustrated by a letter from him from 1786.Īdolph Menzel : Frederick the Great's Flute Concerto in Sanssouci, oil on canvas, 1852. In 1738 he finished his studies, but gave up his plans for an academic career in order to devote himself to music.īach composed from 1731 on.
In addition to his own early compositions, he performed works by his father there, including the overture in D major with the famous Air, the coffee cantata and the harpsichord concerto in D minor BWV 1052, presumably in a separate arrangement ( BWV 1052a). After an unsuccessful application as organist at the Wenceslas Church in Naumburg in 1732, he enrolled at the Brandenburg University of Frankfurt in 1734, where he became a member of the local Collegium musicum. In 1731 he began studying law at the University of Leipzig.
He moved with his family to Köthen in 1717, where his birth mother died in 1720, and to Leipzig in 1723, when his father became Thomaskantor there and taught all his sons as a teacher at the Thomas School. His godparents were Georg Philipp Telemann, as well as the page master Adam Immanuel Weldig (until 1713 landlord of the Bach family in Weimar) and Catharina Dorothea Altmann (wife of chamberlain C. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, bust in the Konzerthaus BerlinĬarl Philipp Emanuel Bach was born in 1714 as the second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and his first wife Maria Barbara.
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