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’