C. P. E. Bach's Organ Sonatas: A Musical Offering for Princess Amalia?

This article presents a history of the prelude and six sonatas, Wq 70/1-7, that Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach reputedly wrote for Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia. As a musical patron of mid-eighteenth-century Berlin, the princess was second only to her brother, Frederick the Great. Her library of musica...

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