Publication at Faculty of Education |
2014
Abstract
The lecture deals with an important figure in European music, C. P.
E. Bach, on the occasion of the 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 (new piece of knowelge). It recalls the important musical composers of the classicist and romantic periods whose work was inspired by that of C.
P. E.
Bach.