best CPE Bach piano tune

[j_tour]

I'm reading more in Mozart and Haydn these days, primarily for fun, but also to try to improvise better in late baroque style.

Yeah, the solfeggio, whatever.

But what's a good, representative work that I can just sight-read and gain some insight into that odd transitional time?p

[hardy_practice]

I'm reading more in Mozart and Haydn these days, primarily for fun, but also to try to improvise better in late baroque style.

Yeah, the solfeggio, whatever.

But what's a good, representative work that I can just sight-read and gain some insight into that odd transitional time?p

There is obviously not going to be anything 'representative' in a 'transitional' period.  CPE's career is a joy of innovation.  Check out WF.  Much of his keyboard works are about riffs and he's a far superior composer to CPE.  Dresden was a big scene - you want the Graun brothers and Hasse for that.  Also there are very good reasons why Frederick the Great (he coined that himself!) wasn't interested in JS.