C P E Bach’s Rhetoric of Resurrection
Now available on ResearchGate, the full study by Dr Alton Thompson. This is likely the first-ever comprehensive study of the Easter oratorio by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. The composer set a poetic text by Karl Wilhelm Ramler in grand style while working at Michaelskirche in Hamburg in the late 1700s. ‘ Auferstehung : Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach’s Rhetoric of Resurrection ’