Composer
Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
1714–1788
1,063 works in the index
- Born
- 1714
- Died
- 1788
- Birthplace
- Weimar
- Citizenship / historical state
- Germany
- Period (estimated from birth year)
- Baroque
Biography
The second surviving son of Johann Sebastian, and for most of the eighteenth century the more famous of the two. Haydn and Beethoven both studied his keyboard music closely, and it sounds like neither his father's nor anyone else's.
The keyboard sonatas are the body of it, and they are genuinely useful teaching repertoire — comparable in difficulty to Haydn's, more unpredictable, and far less played. The Solfeggietto in C minor is the one piece of his that everyone has met, usually early. His treatise on keyboard playing is still the primary source for how this music was performed.
Works carry Wq. numbers from Wotquenne and H. numbers from Helm, and editions use one or the other or both, so the same sonata appears under two identifiers. Where a listing gives both, they are the reliable way to confirm what you are buying.
In this catalogue
- Common listed instruments
- Piano, Flute, Clarinet, harpsichord, Organ
- Genres represented
- Classical, pop, New Age
- Works with composition dates
- 63 of 1,063
These details describe the indexed sheet music, including arrangements.
Catalogue
Works page 4 of 23
Years are composition dates where known. Instruments describe editions in our catalogue and may include arrangements. A dash means the detail is not recorded.
| Work | Year composed | Catalogue / opus | Key in title | Listed instruments | Genre | Editions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canzona In D Minor | — | — | D minor | — | Classical | 5 |
| Fantasie & Fugue In C Min | — | — | — | — | Classical | 5 |
| Prelude & Fugue In A | — | — | — | Piano, Organ | Classical | 5 |
| Aria Cantata #45 | — | — | — | Flute | Classical | 4 |
| Aria Cantata #78 | — | — | — | Flute | Classical | 4 |
| Aria Cantata #99 | — | — | — | Flute | Classical | 4 |
| Aria Cantata #102 | — | — | — | Flute | Classical | 4 |
| Aria Cantata #115 | — | — | — | Flute | Classical | 4 |
| Aria Cantata #170 | — | — | — | Flute | Classical | 4 |
| Aria Cantata #212 | — | — | — | Piano, Flute | Classical | 3 |
| Contrapunctus I | — | — | — | Horn, Trombone, Tuba | Classical | 5 |
| Aus Tiefer Not Schrei Ich Zu Dir Bwv 687 | 1724 in LeipzigIMSLP | Bwv 687 | — | — | Classical | 5 |
| Polonaise in G Minor No 1 | — | — | G minor | Piano | Classical | 5 |
| Minuet No. 4 in C minor | — | — | C minor | Piano | Classical | 4 |
| Air On the G String | — | — | — | Piano, Cello, violin, Saxophone, Viola | Classical | 4 |
| Prelude for lute | — | — | — | — | Classical | 5 |
| Menuet in A Minor from Suite No. 4 in E Minor | — | — | — | — | — | 5 |
| March in D major, BWV 122 | — | BWV 122 | D major | Piano | Classical | 5 |
| Gavotte from French Suite No. 5 | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 4 |
| Two-Part Invention in E Minor | — | — | E minor | Piano | Classical | 3 |
| Two-Part Invention in B Minor | — | — | B minor | Piano | Classical | 3 |
| Minuet in G Major | — | — | G major | Piano, Oboe, Horn | Classical | 4 |
| Prelude and Fugue in C Major, WTC 1 | — | — | C major | Piano | Classical | 5 |
| Prelude and Fugue in D Major, WTC 1 | — | — | D major | Piano | Classical | 5 |
| Prelude in C Minor from The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I | — | — | C minor | Piano | Classical | 3 |
| Allegro assai from Sonata Wz 55/II | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 5 |
| Sonata in A Minor, H. 562 - Horn in F | — | — | A minor | Horn | Classical | 4 |
| Flute Sonata in D major, Wq.131 (H.561) | 1747 in BerlinIMSLP | — | D major | Basso continuo, Flute | Classical | 4 |
| 6 Piano Sonatas, Wq. 53 | 1762-64IMSLP | — | — | Piano | Classical | 4 |
| Sonata in B-flat, Wq.62/1 | 1731, rev. 1744IMSLP | — | — | Piano | Classical | 4 |
| Sonata in D Minor from 'Clavier-Sonaten nebst einigen Rondos | 1766IMSLP | — | D minor | Piano | Classical | 3 |
| Sonata for Violin and Harpsichord in g minor, H.524.5 | 1734 (?)IMSLP | — | G minor | harpsichord, violin | Classical | 4 |
| La Xenophone | 1757IMSLP | — | — | — | Classical | 3 |
| Quia Respexit (Lo,He Regarded) Cpe Bach | — | — | — | Voice, bass, Tenor, Choir, Alto | Classical | 3 |
| Sonata, F minor, Wq 62,6 (Piano solo) | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 4 |
| Sonata, F sharp minor, Wq 52,4 (Piano solo) | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 5 |
| Bach: Sonata C major Wq 62,7 | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 3 |
| Bach: Sonata d minor Wq 65,23 | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 3 |
| Praeludium | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 2 |
| Sinfonia | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 4 |
| Gavotte and Musette | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 4 |
| March-musette-polonaise (The Notebook For Anna Magdalena Bach] | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 4 |
| Sonata, C major, Wq 62,10 (Piano solo) | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 5 |
| Sonata, A minor, Wq 62,21 (Piano solo) | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 3 |
| Bach: Sonata b minor Wq 62,22 | — | — | — | Piano | Classical | 2 |
| Sonata B flat major Wq 70, No. 2 | — | — | — | Organ | Classical | 5 |
| Sonata in D Major - WQ 131 | — | — | D major | Flute | Classical | 5 |
| Violoncello Concerto in A minor, Wq170, H432 | — | — | A minor | Cello | — | 4 |
Biographical record: Wikidata, matched on name and checked against dates held in the catalogue. The period label is an estimate from birth year. The biography above is our own. Authority record: VIAF 204566. Portrait: After Johann Philipp Bach, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.