Bach-Repertorium III/1: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Teil 1: Instrumentalwerke)

This catalog of works contains the most important information on all of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s verifiable instrumental works. Due to Bach’s tendency to continually revise his compositions, both in major and minor ways, and to swap out individual movements to create new combinations, it is necessary to differentiate between the different versions and scoring variants of each work. This detective work has shed light on the interconnections between the respective works. An extremely exciting and extensive publication that also incorporates the findings from the first complete edition Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach – The Complete Works.

With extensive descriptions of sources and detailed incipits, combined with the most important information on the history of the works and the verifiable editions, editor Wolfram Enßlin has made the instrumental works of the “Hamburg” Bach accessible to scholars and musicians. A valuable building block for our understanding and appreciation of the achievements of the Thuringian-Saxon Bach family of musicians!