Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2013
Abstract
The article deals with an important figure in European music, C. P.
E. Bach, on the occasion of the upcoming 300th anniversary of his birth.
It discusses his influence on the development of European music, especially on piano performance and piano teaching. It refers to his compositional legacy in works devoted to keyboard instruments.
It gives reasons for the use of the fortepiano as the ideal instrument for the performance of his works. It recalls the important musical composers of the classicist and romantic periods whose work was inspired by that of C.
P. E.
Bach