This is primarily a set of indexes and concordances intended to aid in finding musical scores and information pertaining to the works of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-88). In addition, you can find here critical editions of four of the composer's keyboard concertos (W. 4, 5, 6, and 24) as well as information about the Keyboard Fantasia in E-flat, H. 348 and demonstrations of the composer's technique of "composition by variation" in the Keyboard Sonata in E-flat W. 65/7 and in the Sonata in C W. 51/1, which was "afterwards twice completely varied" as W. 65/35 and W. 65/36. For more about the latter two works (including audio files), click here.
Some of this material will gradually become obsolete as a new edition of the works of C. P. E. Bach, published by the Packard Humanities Institute, becomes available. I plan to publish either here or in print a new list of the composer's works incorporating references to volumes in that edition as well as updated information about dates and sources. For now, however, most of the information included here remains useful for many purposes.
The index pages include:
an introduction to the use of this material (introduction)
a concordance of Wotquenne to Helm numbers, with Nachlassverzeichnis numbers, date and place of composition, and an index to the keyboard pieces in the facsimile scores published by Darrell Berg (concordance)
an index to E. Eugene Helm's catalog of the works of C.P.E. Bach, including first lines of vocal works (and of individual movements from larger vocal works) (index)
a chronological listing of all of C.P.E. Bach's works (chronological list).
Please cite David Schulenberg and this website if you use any of this material in a scholarly publication. Please send comments, corrections, and suggestions to David Schulenberg at dschulen AT wagner.edu.
Last updated 1/4/12.