Mozart and Beethoven both attested to the influence of C.P.E. Bach on their own music, but the connection is perhaps stronger in Beethoven's case. Beethoven grew up in Bonn, studying C.P.E.'s piano method, which contained a good deal of his compositional thinking, and the muscular tone of C.P.E.'s rather neglected symphonies left a strong impression. The release by the venerable Akademie für alte Musik Berlin under Bernhard Forck is nevertheless one of the few recordings available that addresses this interesting connection. ...
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Mozart and Beethoven both attested to the influence of C.P.E. Bach on their own music, but the connection is perhaps stronger in Beethoven's case. Beethoven grew up in Bonn, studying C.P.E.'s piano method, which contained a good deal of his compositional thinking, and the muscular tone of C.P.E.'s rather neglected symphonies left a strong impression. The release by the venerable Akademie für alte Musik Berlin under Bernhard Forck is nevertheless one of the few recordings available that addresses this interesting connection. Forck is persuasive with the slow movements of the Bach Symphony in F major, Wq 175, and of the Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21. Despite the mode difference (Bach's movement is in minor), it seems pretty plausible that Beethoven had this music in his head, even if only subliminally. With the second pair, the Bach Symphony in G major, Wq 183/4, and the Beethoven Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 36, the relationship is less clear, and Forck might have done better to offer...
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