Classification · German and Austrian area
1735 – 1782
Leipzig - London
Review
Johann Sebastian Bach's younger son was formed with his brother Carl Philipp Emanuel in Berlin and later in Italy with Father Martini. There he became a Catholicist, an organist of the Milan Cathedral and triumphed as an opera composer.
In 1762 he settled in London, where he was a music teacher of Queen Carlota and founded with Carl Friedrich Abel the famous Bach- Abel concerts. In 1764 he met the young Mozart, eight years old, who was marked by his elegant and cantabile style: his keyboard concerts are a direct antecedent of Mozart's.
Main works
- Opera Artasse (1760)
- Keyboard concerts op. 7 (1770) and op. 13 (1777)
- Quintos op. 11 (1774)
- Temistole Opera (Mannheim, 1772)
- Opera Lucio Silla (1775)
- Symphonies op. 18 (1781)
- Amadis de Gaule Opera (Paris, 1779)
