"Probestücke" Sonatas, Wq 63

This volume contains C.P.E. Bach's "Achtzehn Probe-St cke in Sechs Sonaten" and "Sechs neue Clavier-St cke," Wq 63 (H 70-75, H 292-297), written as a companion to his keyboard treatise "Versuch ber das wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen." Also included is a facsimile of Gerstenberg's arrangement of Wq 63/6/iii published in "La Flora" (1787) with texts of the dying Socrates and Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy.