- Classical Music Dictionary

A Rococo style composer, and a son of Johann Sebastian Bach, C.P.E. Bach was a wonderful author of cheerful music.

He was born on March 8, 1718, in Weimar, Deutschland, one of twenty siblings that were ultimately born to J.S. Bach and his two wives.

C.P.E. Bach met Mozart, whom he influenced profoundly, and also had effects on the lives of other composers.

He also changed styles with the times in a spectacular skill at adaption.

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach died in Hamburg, on December 14, 1788, and was mourned by the entire musical community of Europe.