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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Quotes

1714–1788 Germany

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788) was a German musician and composer, the son of Johann Sebastian Bach.

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A musician cannot move others unless he too is moved. He must feel all the emotions that he hopes to arouse in his audience, for the revealing of his own humor will stimulate a like mood in the listener.

Composers on Music : An Anthology of Composers' Writings from Palestrina to Copland (1956)

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.