Editing Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (section)

==Legacy and musical style==
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Through the later half of the 18th century, the reputation of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach stood very high,{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}} surpassing that of his father.<ref name=Dammann/> Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven admired him and "avidly" collected his music.<ref name=Dammann/> Mozart said of him, "Bach is the father, we are the children."{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}}{{refn|{{harvp|Rochlitz|1824–1832|pp=308&nbsp;ff}} quoted in {{harvp|Ottenberg|1987|p=98 & 191}}}}

His work has been described as "sincere in thought" and "polished and felicitous in phrase".{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}} His keyboard sonatas, for example, "mark an important epoch in the history of musical form".{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}} "Lucid in style, delicate and tender in expression, they are even more notable for the freedom and variety of their structural design"; they break away altogether from the hardened conventions of the Italian school.{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}}

He was probably the first composer of eminence who made free use of harmonic color for its own sake.{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}} In this way, he compares well with the most important representatives of the [[First Viennese School]].{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}} In fact, he exerted enormous influence on the North German School of composers, in particular [[Georg Anton Benda]], [[Bernhard Joachim Hagen]], [[Ernst Wilhelm Wolf]], [[Johann Gottfried Müthel]], and [[Friedrich Wilhelm Rust]]. His influence was not limited to his contemporaries and extended to [[Felix Mendelssohn]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Felix Mendelssohn: Reviving the Works of J.S. Bach |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200156436/ |website=Library of Congress|access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref> and [[Carl Maria von Weber]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Carl Maria von Weber |date=18 November 1976 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-29121-7 |page=105 |edition=2d |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bp08AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA105 |access-date=16 June 2020}}</ref>

His name fell into neglect during the 19th century, with [[Robert Schumann]] notoriously opining that "as a creative musician he remained very far behind his father";<ref name=Hubeart /> others opined that he was "a somewhat feeble imitator of his father's style".{{sfnp|''EB''|1878}} All the same, [[Johannes Brahms]] held him in high regard and edited some of his music. By the early 20th century, he was better regarded{{sfnp|''EB''|1911}} but the revival of C. P. E. Bach's works has been chiefly underway since Helmuth Koch's recordings of his symphonies and [[Hugo Ruf]]'s recordings of his keyboard sonatas in the 1960s. There is an ongoing project to record his complete works, led by {{ill|Miklós Spányi|de}} on the Swedish record label [[BIS Records|BIS]]. In 2014, the Croatian pianist [[Ana-Marija Markovina]], in cooperation with the [[Packard Humanities Institute]], the [[Bach-Archiv Leipzig]], the [[Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig]] and [[Harvard University]] released a 26-CD box set of the complete works for solo piano on the German record label [[Hänssler]] Classic, performed on a modern [[Bösendorfer]] grand piano.

The works of C. P. E. Bach are known by "Wq" numbers, from [[Alfred Wotquenne]]'s 1906 catalogue, and by "H" numbers from a catalogue by Eugene Helm (1989).

He was portrayed by [[Wolfgang Liebeneiner]] in the 1941 biopic of his brother ''[[Friedemann Bach (film)|Friedemann Bach]]''.

The street [[Carl-Philipp-Emanuel-Bach-Straße]] in [[Frankfurt (Oder)]] is named after him.

In 2015 the [[Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Museum]] was opened in Hamburg.<ref>Stadt Hamburg, [https://www.hamburg.de/museum-hamburg/4467104/bach-museum/ CPE Bach-Museum]</ref>

2014 marked the 300th anniversary of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach's birth. All six German Bach cities—Hamburg, Potsdam, Berlin, Frankfurt-on-the-Oder, Leipzig, and Weimar—hosted concerts and other events to commemorate the anniversary.<ref>[http://www.cpebach.de/en www.cpebach.de], Official Anniversary Website for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.</ref>