A first exploration of the theme of ‘music and melancholy’, with three works by C.P.E. Bach. Conversation between a Sanguineus and a Melancholicus is an experiment in ‘speaking music’. Two other works can be considered melancholic ‘ego documents’: the fantasia C.P.E. Bach’s feelings (C.P. E. Bachs Empfindungen) and the Farewell to my Silbermann Clavichord.
00:00 Intro
00:36 Conversation between a sanguine and a melancholic person
08:06 Humores, humour
10:40 Emanuel Bach’s melancholy sentiments
24:51 Farewell to my clavichord
Sources: see Melancholy, Memory and Music 2 on this website.
Music fragments:
00:36 C.P.E. Bach, Sonata a 2 violini e basso in C minor, ‘Gespräch zwischen einem Sanguineus und Melancholicus’ Wq 161/1*
11:32, 16:05 C.P.E. Bach, Fantasie (Freie Fantasie) in F-sharp minor, ‘C.P.E. Bachs Empfindungen’ Wq 67*
14:42 J.S. Bach, Chromatische Fantasie und Fuge BWV 903*
20:24 C.P.E. Bach, Andenken an den Tod. 30 Geistliche Gesänge mit Melodien 2 Wq 198/12. Klaus Mertens, Ludger Remy CPO CX 9708
25:06 C.P.E. Bach, Abschied von meinem Silbermannischen Claviere, in einem Rondo Wq 66*
*Lodewijk Muns, piano
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