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PROGRAM NOTES by Phillip Huscher Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Born March 8, 1714, Weimar,, Germany Germany. Died December 14, 1788, Hamburg,, Germany Germany. Symphony No. 1 in D Major, W. 183 Emanuel Bach—as as he came to be known known—was was the most prolific and famous of Johann Sebastian Bach's sons. Although he was born into the most musical family we have ever known known—even even his godfather was the popular composer Georg Philipp Telemann Telemann—Emanuel Emanuel studied law at first. His father encouraged this, it seems, perhaps determined that his son have the university education he himself lacked. All the while, however, Carl Philipp Emanuel was also studying and performing music, and ffinally, inally, in 1730, he began composing under the watchful eye of his father. Clearly music was his calling. In later years, when he was the most famous keyboard player in all Europe, the great historian Charles Burney described Emanuel, seated at the clavichord, rd, playing into the night like a man possessed: 'He not only played, but looked like one inspired.' For nearly thirty years, Emanuel served as composer to Frederick the Great and then, in 1768, succeeded his godfather Telemann as music director in Hamburg Hamburg,, one of the prized positions of the day. Phillip Huscher is the program annotator for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. © Chicago Symphony Orchestra. All rights reserved. Program notes may be reproduced only in their entirety and with express written permission from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. These notes appear in galley files and may contain typographical or other errors. Programs subject to change without notice.