C.P.E. Bach Studies

Annette Richards is Associate Professor of Music and University Organist at Cornell University. She is the author of The Free Fantasia and the Musical Picturesque (Cambridge, 2001), and co-editor of Acting on the Past: Historical Performance Across the Disciplines (2000). An active performer, she has won prizes at the Dublin International Organ Competition and the Bruges Early Music Festival, and has recorded the complete works of Melchior Schildt at the historic organ in Roskilde Cathedral.

"A must for music historians and students of 18th-century culture. Essential." -- Choice

• Introduction; 1. Diderot's Paradoxe and C. P. E. Bach's Empfindungen Richard Kramer; 2. Dark fantasies and the dawn of the self: Gerstenberg's monologues for C. P. E. Bach's C Minor Fantasia Tobias Plebuch; 3. Sources of C. P. E. Bach's solo keyboard works in the Sing-Akademie archives Darrell M. Berg; 4. Reason and revelation in C. P. E. Bach's Resurrection Oratorio Richard Will; 5. C. P. E. Bach and C. C. Sturm: sacred song, public church service, and private devotion Ulrich Leisinger; 6. An enduring moment: C. P. E. Bach and the musical sublime Annette Richards; 7. C. P. E. Bach and the living traditions of learned counterpoint David Yearsley; 8. Plates for sale: C. P. E. Bach and the story of Die Kunst der Fuge David Ferris; 10. 'Our old great favourite': Burney, Bach and the Bachists Christopher Hogwood.