At the time when CPE Bach was engaged as court harpsichordist at Sans-Souci, Berlin discovered the pleasure of listening to a new type of music which could 'speak' without words, music which brought to mind the deepest of human emotions. The sonata 'Sanguineus & Melancolicus' illustrates a process which goes from opposition to reconciliation...from dueling instruments to counterpoint, from an almost recitative-like improvised style to sonata from, and from opposing to compelentary themes...in short, it proceeds from 'rhetorical music' to 'pure music'.
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