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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Quick Facts

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Born March 8, 1714 • Weimar • Germany
Died December 14, 1788 (aged 74) • Hamburg • Germany
Movement / Style Baroque music • empfindsamer Stil
Notable Family Members father Johann Sebastian Bach

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Painting by Elias Gottlieb Hausmann of Johann Sebastian Bach wearing a dark coat with a white shirt and holding a sheet of music in his left hand.
Johann Sebastian Bach
German composer
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
German composer
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, drawing by P. Gulle, 1783; in the Staatsbibliothek, Berlin
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
German composer
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Austrian composer
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
German composer
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
German composer
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Austrian composer
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Austrian composer
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Hungarian composer
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
German musician and composer
Paul Hindemith.
Paul Hindemith
German composer
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Max Reger
German composer
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Johann Christian Bach
German composer
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Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
German composer
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Russian composer
Portrait of composer Sergey Prokofiev, circa 1938, wearing round glasses, a suit, and a tie, looking slightly to the side.
Sergey Prokofiev
Russian composer
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Russian composer
Portrait of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak with a beard, wearing a suit jacket, waistcoat, and bow tie.
Antonín Dvořák
Bohemian composer
Luigi Boccherini
Luigi Boccherini
Italian composer
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer

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