Tell about Johann Christoph Bach.
Tell about Carl Philip Emanuel Bach.
Tell about Carl Philip Emanuel Bach’s contribution to the development of the sonata.
What other works did C. P. E. Bach write?
A comparison of the dates from Kuhnau’s published work in Sonatas to that of C. P. E. Bach, the immediate predecessor and model for Haydn, shows that the form took definite shape in the course of about fifty years.
Franz Joseph Haydn.
LESSON XXX.
Franz Joseph Haydn.
The Three Great Sonata Writers.—In the year of C. P. E. Bach’s death, 1788, three men had already entered the arena as champions of that Sonata Form to which he contributed so much. Haydn was then fifty-six, Mozart thirty-two and Beethoven eighteen years of age. All three added to the glory of Vienna by making it their dwelling-place in their later years; and the three formed a triumvirate which not only gave to the Sonata a permanent and complete form, but also brought this form into absolute subservience to the expression of every variety of emotional thought.