Approximately 23 years ago, I was recording some concert announcements for an information-by-phone service. There was a concert at which an ensemble was going to perform works by J.S. Bach and C.P.E. Bach. At the time, there was no Internet access in the office, and there was no music reference book handy. I asked my supervisor, "I know that J.S. Bach is Johann Sebastian Bach, but what does C.P.E. stand for in the other Bach composer's name?" Neither of us knew, so she called her father, a Classical music aficionado, and asked. Her father replied, "Carl Philipp Emanuel."
It had to have been at least a little more satisfying to be a music aficionado in pre-Google times.
