J. C. Bach

This volume of essays brings together the best of recent scholarship on Johann Christian Bach, the youngest son of J.S. Bach and a friend and mentor of Mozart. J.C. Bach had a cosmopolitan career, beginning in Berlin as a pupil of his half-brother, C.P.E. Bach, then a sojourn to Italy where he studied with Padre Martini in Bologna; after making his successful debut with operas for Turin and Naples he moved to London, where he became a leading composer and impresario. The articles selected for this volume represent the principal themes of scholarly research and writing over the past fifty years. The introduction provides a survey of J.C. Bach’s career and an overview of recent literature. The collection includes English translations of two articles first published in German in the Bach-Jahrbuch, as well as one article published as recently as 2015. An appendix lists the complete contents of The Collected Works of Johann Christian Bach, using the Warburton catalogue numbers. Series Page 3 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Table of Contents 6 Acknowledgements 10 Series Preface 11 Introduction 16 Part I: Biographical 34 1 Daniel Heartz • Christian Bach in London 36 2 Hans-Joachim Schulze • When Did the Youngest Bach Son Begin His “Italian Journey”? 84 3 Howard Brofsky • J.C. Bach, G.B. Sammartini, and Padre Martini: A Concorso in Milan in 1762 90 4 Betty Matthews • The Davies Sisters, J.C. Bach and the Glass Harmonica 96 5 Stephan Roe • The “Paris” Bach 116 6 John Small • J.C. Bach Goes to Law 124 7 Stephen Roe • J.C. Bach and “New Music, at a More Reasonable Expence” 128 8 Daniel Heartz • Abel, Christian Bach, and Gainsborough 132 Part II: Instrumental Music 172 9 Daniel E. Freeman • Johann Christian Bach and the Early Classical Italian Masters 174 10 Richard Maunder • J.C. Bach and the Early Piano in London 214 11 Stanley Sadie • The Wind Music of J.C. Bach 224 12 Adena Portowitz • Johann Christian Bach 236 13 Niels Krabbe • J.C. Bach’s Symphonies and the Breitkopf Thematic Catalogue 258 14 Ann van Allen-Russell • “For Instruments Not Intended”: The Second J.C. Bach Lawsuit 280 15 Jen-yen Chen • Johann Christian Bach and the Church Symphony 308 16 Jane R. Stevens • Johann Christian Bach (1735-82) 328 17 Bryan Gillingham • Social and Musical Matters Pertaining to J.C. Bach’s Third Set of Keyboard Concertos 372 Part III: Vocal Music 386 18 Stephen Roe • The Newly Rediscovered Autograph Manuscripts of Johann Christian Bach’s Milan Sacred Music at the Staats- und Universitatsbibliothek Hamburg (ND VI 540, Vols. 1-4) 388 19 Kenneth Nott • J.C. Bach’s Gioas, re di Giuda: A Meeting of Metastasian and Handelian Traditions 408 20 Ernest Warburton • J.C. Bach’s Operas 426 21 Margaret R. Butler • The Misadventures of Artaserse (Turin, 1760): J.C. Bach’s First Italian Opera from Production to Performance 426 22 Martha Feldman • Mozart and His Elders: Opera-Seria Arias, 1766-1775 456 23 Stefan Kunze • Die Vertonungen der Arie “Non so d’onde viene”, von J. Chr. Bach und W.A. Mozart 468 24 Stephen Roe • J.C. Bach’s Vauxhall Songs: Introduction 496 25 Ernest Warburton • Lucio Silla, by Mozart and J.C. Bach 502 26 Paul Corneilson • The Case of J.C. Bach’s Lucio Silla 506 27 Ernest Warburton • J.C. Bach’s “La clemenza di Scipione” 520 28 Virginia Palmer • The Application of the Sonata Principle to Structure in La clemenza di Scipione by J.C. Bach 522 Name Index 550 Edited By Paul Corneilson. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Text Primarily In English With Some German.