This document contains excerpts and examples from a longer work discussing Emanuel Bach and the allure of the irrational. It includes a synoptic view of Emanuel Bach's 18 Probestücke musical works, excerpts from some of his sonatas, and examples of musical scores, including from Haydn's Die Schöpfung. The document provides contextual examples to support analysis and discussion in the larger work.

1. Every perfect work is the death mask
of its intuition.
The work is the death mask of
conception.
Walter Benjamin
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2007
R i c ha r d K r a m e r

2. 8 Part II Emanuel Bach and the Allure of the Irrational Chapter 7 Haydn’s Chaos and Herder’s Logos 9
Example 5.1 A. A synoptic view of the 18 Probestücke.
B. From Sonata IV, Largo, cadenza a 2.
C. From Sonata VI, Adagio, cadenza a 3.
D. Sonata VI, Fantasia, opening music.
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Example 3.1 C.P.E. Bach, Kurze und leichte Klavierstücke mit veränderten
Reprisen, II (1768), no. 2 (H 229).
(continued)

3. 10 Part II Emanuel Bach and the Allure of the Irrational
EXAMPLE 6.3
Freie Fantasie fürs
Clavier, H 300.
(continued)
Example 3.1 (continued)

4. Chapter 7 Haydn’s Chaos and Herder’s Logos 13
Appendix 2A C.P.E. Bach, Sonata per il cembalo solo, H 248 (1775), first and
second movements. From Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Klaviersonaten: Auswahl,
ed. Darrell M. Berg, 3 vols. (Munich: G. Henle, 1986–1989), 3:88–92. Used by
permission.
EXAMPLE 7.2
Haydn, Die Schöpfung,
“Einleitung,” mm. 1–21.
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