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Carl
Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788) was a German Classical
period musician and composer, the fifth child and second (surviving) son of Johann
Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach. His second name was given in honor of
his godfather Georg Philipp Telemann, a friend of Emanuel's father.
Emanuel
Bach was an influential composer working at a time of transition between his
father's baroque style and the classical and romantic styles that followed it.
His personal approach, an expressive and often turbulent one known as 'sensitive
style', applied the principles of rhetoric and drama to musical structures.
Bach's dynamism stands in deliberate contrast to the more mannered rococo style
also then in vogue.
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