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The family of Bach music - how long was it significant?

Sara levy, relates how the stream name in the world of music preserved the Bach sons after the death of her father's pupil of Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, friend of the family Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, collector of Bachiana and great aunt of Felix Mendelssohn. I've known the Bach family for years and years. I studied harpsichord with Johann Sebastian Bach's son Wilhelm Friedemann. In fact, Wilhelm told me often that I was his favorite student. Wilhelm Friedemann was a brilliant organist and improviser, but he never lived a happy life and sadly died in poverty in Berlin years ago. Johann Sebastian Bach son, Carl Phillip Emanuel, was on the other hand, hugely successful, both in Berlin and later in Hamburg, where he is a very similar to his father's St. Thomas had position post. Carl Phillip's family and I have been great friends for years and years. CPE is known for his treatise on the true art of playing keyboard instruments. The paper used by every important teachers ...