Word: philippes
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...Johann Sebastian was only one of many talented Bachs who furnished Germany with music for seven generations. Himself the culmination of a long line of Bachs, the great Johann Sebastian begot 20 children, three of whom became composers of world renown: Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Christian Bach and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach...
Most gifted of this trio was Carl Philipp Emanuel (1714-88), whose fame long outshone his father's. For 27 years C. P. E. had the politically impressive but musically dubious honor of accompanying Frederick the Great while he bore down on the flute. Frederick played a repertory of some 300 concertos in relentless rotation, nearly wore his accompanist out. When the Seven Years' War began, C. P. E. got temporary relief...
...frayed and yellow manuscripts were written in a beautiful 18th-Century hand, and each bore the name of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Koldofsky bought the manuscripts and started a six-year search through musical libraries. He found that the manuscripts were not in C. P. E.'s own handwriting. Seven turned out to be copies of concertos by C. P. E. already listed or known to exist in European collections. The other seven, so far as Koldofsky has been able to discover, are new to the musical world. Since all the scripts are in the same handwriting...
Donor Norton is pretty well satisfied with the 145 paintings he gave the museum: he and his wife spent 20 years collecting them. Sixty are by contemporary U.S. artists-Robert Brackman, Eugene Speicher, Leon Kroll, Maurice Sterne, Robert Philipp, Jerry Farnsworth. Earlier U.S. artists like Inness, Whistler, Frederick Waugh, Elliott Daingerfield, are represented. English portraitists, a few illustrative old and French Impressionist masters help round out the collection...
...stunt in packaging: the two items, by a pair who have collaborated in other musico-literary ventures, sell for $5 boxed. Miss Castagnetta plays the music not too warmly. Mr. van Loon is probably the off-dashing-est of Bach's many biographers (best: Julius August Philipp Spitta, 19th Century German scholar; Dr. Albert Schweitzer, organist and missionary in Africa), illustrates the mighty J. S.'s life with his usual hen-tracky pen drawings...