Notes on Rococco and the age of sensibility

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…showed last 75 words of 600 total…1472;he was the second son of Johann Sebastian Bach 'he deepened the emotional content of the abstract instrumental forms and played a decisive role in the creation of the modern piano idiom 'his dramatic sonata style exerted a powerful influence on the masters of the classical era 'his theoretical treatise Essay on the True Art of Playing Keyboard Instruments (1753-62) casts much light on the musical practices of the mid-eighteenth century