The Cleveland Orchestra’s principal flute plays a 19th-century wooden instrument he found in an antique shop and repaired. Though technically inauthentic, its soft, caressing tone suits Bach. In the ...

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the second son of Johann Sebastian, was born in 1714 in Weimar, Germany. A prank-loving, high-spirited child, he studied music with his father before going on to read law at ...