However, in his last years, Bach was not concerned anymore about music which was marketable. This can be explainedīy the fact that such sonatas were written for the market of musical amateurs. He composed many sonatas for the then increasingly fashionable transverse flute with a basso continuo part, linking up with the tradition which had been established in the baroque period and in which he had been brought up by his father.
In his chamber music Bach was mostly considerably more modest with regard to exposing the features of the two elements which are so characteristic of his compositional style: the Empfindsamkeit and the Sturm und Drang. They are Bach's last chamber music works and date from the year of his death. Reviewed as a stereo 16/44 download with pdf booklet from OuthereĮven before Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach reached the status of fashionable composer, his three quartets for keyboard, transverse flute and viola attracted the attention of performers.
Sonata No 6 in A 'Prussian Sonata' (Wq 48,6 /H 29) (arr. Support us financially by purchasing from
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