Music Faculty
University of Oxford, Saint Aldate's, Oxford, Oxfordshire OX1 1DB
UK
This conference aims not only to explore C.P.E. Bach’s music in relation to Affekt and feeling, character and expression, but also to examine the composer’s role in the development of what might be termed an eighteenth-century Austro-German culture of keyboard music.
KEYNOTE LECTURES
Matthew Head (King’s College London): Fantasia ‘in tormentis’ (H. 278): gout, sensation and musical meaning
Annette Richards (Cornell University): Sensibility Triumphant: C.P.E. Bach and the Art of Feeling
PAPERS
SESSION 1: C.P.E. Bach as Theorist and Practitioner
John McKean (University of Cambridge): Towards a ‘Wahre Art’: C.P.E. Bach’s Versuch and the German contribution to the Keyboard Treatise Genre
Sheila Guymer (University of Cambridge):
The legacy of C.P.E. Bach’s Versuch in interpretations of the first movement of Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 109
Joshua Walden (John Hopkins Peabody Institute): C.P.E. Bach and the Cadenza as Interpretation
SESSION 2: Character and Expression
Thomas Irvine (University of Southampton): The Chinese Taste and Emanuel Bach
Yonatan Bar-Yoshafat (Cornell University): The Limits of Subjectivity? Self-Reflexive Manifestations in C. P. E. Bach’s E minor Keyboard Concerto, H. 418
Keith Chapin (Cardiff University): C.P.E. Bach and the Neo-Classical Sublime: Revisions of a Concept
SESSION 3: Crosscurrents in C.P.E. Bach’s Oeuvre
Susan Wollenberg (University of Oxford): In what way a set? C.P.E. Bach’s ‘Kenner und Liebhaber’ volumes
Hans-Günter Ottenberg (Technische Universität Dresden): C.P. E. Bach in the area of tension between North/Central German and South German-Austrian formal concepts, creative strategies, and compositional models of keyboard music
Estelle Joubert (Dalhousie University): ‘Ut luna inter stellas minores’: Locating C.P.E. Bach in eighteenth-century Austro- German keyboard culture
RECITALS
The conference will also feature a clavichord recital by David Gerrard and a fortepiano recital by John Irving.