The sale of one of his instruments led this man to compose the "Abschieds-Rondo."
The sale of one of his instruments led this man to compose the "Abschieds-Rondo." Sonatas by this composer include the Leichte and Damen, while several others were grouped into his collection "For Connoisseurs and Amateurs." The Wotquenne Catalogue of this musician was improved on by the Helm Catalogue, which better incorporated his Nachlassverzeichnis. This composer collected 21 unpublished oratorios based around the Passion theme, while comparisons to Mendelssohn's Elijah are often made to this man's oratorio The Israelites in the Desert.  The focus of this composer of a collection of "Berlin Portraits" turned to (*) church music after replacing his godfather, Georg Philipp Telemann, as Capellmeister in Hamburg, a position he took after leaving the court of Frederick the Great,who had received his father's Musical Offering. The author of Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments, FTP, identify this brother of Wilhelm Friedemann, the second son of the composer of The Well-Tempered Clavier and The Brandenburg Conciertos.
The sale of one of his instruments led this man to compose the "Abschieds-Rondo."
{C}arl Philipp Emanuel {Bach} [prompt on just “Bach”]