Concert “L’âme de l’Homme est semblable à l’eau”

In the 18th century, mainly in Germany, Empfindsamkeit, which translates as "sensitivity", developed. In reaction to the rationalism of the Enlightenment, this aesthetic movement focused on the affections of the soul. Musicians ventured to explore feelings and their infinite variations, freeing themselves from form and emphasizing expressive contrasts and daring harmonies and rhythms.
Johann Sebastian Bach's second son, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, the "Bach of Berlin and Hamburg", is the leading exponent of this movement. Believing that "music should essentially touch the heart", he wrote pages designed to move his audience. Between Baroque language and Classicism, this musical journey also features works by Carl Friedrich Abel, an eminent violinist and close associate of the Bach family.