Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach was most renowned for his gifts of improvisation. Johan Friedrich Reichardt wrote in 1766: “I have not yet said anything to you about the excellent Phantasies of this Master; his whole soul is engaged when he improvises… it is here that he first truly shows the enormous knowledge of harmony and the immeasurable wealth of rare and unusual modulations which establish him is the greatest of original geniuses.”
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