Embedded Files
Costume design for an American Indian king, possibly the title role in Graun's Montezuma (Berlin, 1755)
Musical Facsimiles
Johann Adam Hiller, Die Jagd, eighteenth-century manuscript score IMSLP
C. P. E. Bach, Prussian Sonatas, first edition IMSLP
C. P. E. Bach, Württemberg Sonatas, first edition IMSLP
Recordings
Example 9.3: Frederick the Great, Sonata No. 117 in A major, Marianne Steffen, flute, on Youtube
Example 9.4: Graun's Montezuma, cond. Johannes Goritzki (available on iTunes); this aria ("Barbaro, che mi sei") on Youtube
A porcelain box holding a flute made for King Frederick the Great by Johann Joachim Quantz. With this magnificent ensemble, the king's passion for the flute and flute music interacted with the eighteenth century's love of porcelain's "white gold."
Example 9.5: C. P. E. Bach, Prussian Sonatas, No. 1, Andante, Bob von Asperen, harpsichord, on Youtube
C. P. E. Bach, Württemberg Sonatas, No. 1 in A minor, Moderato, David Schulenberg, harpsichord, on his website
Johann Joachim Quantz, Flute Concertos, Mary Oleskiewicz, flute, and Concerto Armonico, Naxos CD, released in 2013; also available on the Naxos Music Library and (as individual concertos) on Youtube
Also see "Audio and Video Recordings to Accompany Anthology" (click on left)
Johann Adam Hiller
Videos
C. P. E. Bach, "Farewell to my Silbermann Clavichord," Ryan Layne Whitney, clavichord, on Youtube; and another fine performance on Youtube. When watching these, turn the volume down until no background noise is audible.
C. P. E. Bach, Magnificat
Reading
Bauman, Thomas. North German Opera in the Age of Goethe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985) Worldcat
Bauman, Thomas. “Courts and Municipalities in North Germany,” The Classical Era: From the 1740s to the End of the 18th Century, ed. Neal Zaslaw (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1989), 240–67 Worldcat
The Gewandhaus in Leipzig in 1836, Watercolor by Felix Mendelssohn
Butler, Margaret R. “Italian Opera in the Eighteenth Century,” The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music, Simon Keefe, ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), 260–61 Worldcat
C. P. E. Bach Studies, ed. Annette Richards (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) Worldcat
Exner, Ellen. "C. P. E. Bach at His Word: A Reconsideration of the Early Berlin Years," Eighteenth-Century Music 9 (2012), 253–60
Longitudinal section of Frederick the Great's theater in Berlin, designed by Georg Knobelsdorff as one of the first opera houses to stand alone (rather than as part of a larger structure such as a palace). On the left is a large room for receptions, in the middle the auditorium, and on the right the stage.
Gjerdingen, Robert O. Music in the Galant Style (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), 99–100, 399–413 Worldcat
Heartz, Daniel. Music in European Capitals: The Galant Style, 1720–1780 (New York: Norton, 2003), 354–439 Worldcat
Helm, Eugene. Music at the Court of Frederick the Great (Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1960) Worldcat
Antoine Pesne, portrait of Carl Heinirch Graun and his wife
Joubert, Estelle. “Songs to Shape a German Nation: Hiller’s Comic Operas and the Public Sphere,” Eighteenth-Century Music 3 (2006), 213–30
The Letters of C. P. E. Bach ed. and trans. Stephen L. Clark (Oxford: Clarendon, 1997) Worldcat Worldcat
MacDonogh, Giles. Frederick the Great: A Life in Deeds and Letters (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2001) Worldcat
Johann Joachim Quantz. Portrait by Johann Friedrich Gerhard, 1735, in the New Palace, Bayreuth
Newman, William S. “Emanuel Bach’s Autobiography,” Musical Quarterly 51 (1965), 363–72 http://www.jstor.org/stable/741276
Oleskiewicz, Mary. “The Trio in Bach’s Musical Offering: A Salute to Frederick’s Tastes and Quantz’s Flutes?” in David Schulenberg, ed., The Music of J. S. Bach: Analysis and Interpretation (Bach Perspectives 4), ed. David Schulenberg (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), 79–110 Worldcat Author's website
Oleskiewicz, Mary. “The Court of Brandenburg-Prussia,” Music at German Courts, 1715–1760: Change Artistic Priorities, ed. Samantha Owens et al. (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell, 2011), 79–130 Worldcat
Title page of an eighteenth-century keyboard-vocal score of Hiller's Die Jagd. Scores like this one helped Hiller's Singspiel become a favorite all over Germany, some of its simpler songs (Lieder) rivaling folksongs in their popularity.
Oleskiewicz, Mary. "The Flutist of Sanssouci: King Frederick 'the Great' as Performer and Composer," Flutist Quarterly 38 (2012), 18–27
O’Loghlin, Michael. Frederick the Great and His Musicians: The Viola da Gamba Music of the Berlin School (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008) Worldcat
Ottenberg, Hans-Günter. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987) Worldcat
Polzonetti, Pierpaolo. Italian Opera in the Age of the American Revolution (Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2011), 107–32 Worldcat
Program for a concert at Leipzig's Gewandhaus, given in 1785 by the violinist Bartolomeo Campagnoli
Schulenberg, David. "When Did the Clavichord Become C. P. E. Bach's Favorite Instrument? An Inquiry into Expression, Style, and Medium in Eighteenth-Century Keyboard Music," with musical examples performed on a Swedish clavichord built around 1770 in the National Music Museum, Vermillion, South Dakota; on Schulenberg's website
Schulenberg, David. The Music of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2014) Worldcat
Sposato, Jeffrey S. "'The Joyous Light of Day': New Year's Day Music in Leipzig, 1781–1847," Music & Letters 92 (2011), 209–29 http://ml.oxfordjournals.org/content/92/2/202.full
Taruskin, Richard. Oxford History of Western Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005), 409–18 Worldcat
C. P. E. Bach
Study Guide
Names, titles, and terms introduced in chapter 9
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Adam Hiller
Gewandhaus
Singspiel
Die Jagd
Als ich auf meiner Bleiche
Du süsser Wohnplatz
King Frederick II (Frederick the Great)
Johann Joachim Quantz
Princess Wilhelmina
"Principe"; "Principessa"
Carl Heinrich Graun
Giampietro Tagliazucchi
Montezuma
Barbaro che mi sei
Sì, corona i tuoi trofei
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Versuch über die wahre Art das Klavier zu spielen
"Prussian Sonatas"
"Württemberg Sonatas"
Empfindsamer Stil
clavichord
tangent
Bebung
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