1. A facsimile of the preface in the French imprint of the first edition (Berlin: George Ludewig Winter, 1760), together with the original German text and an English translation, are given in Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Sechs Sonaten mit veränderten Reprisen (1760), ed. Etienne Darbellay (Winterthur: Amadeus Verlag, 1976), xii–xiii.