Which German composer used cyclic forms in their pieces?
Cyclic form Cyclic form is a technique of musical construction, involving multiple sections or movements, in which a theme, melody, or thematic material occurs in more than one movement as a unifying device. Sometimes a theme may occur at the beginning and end (for example, in Mendelssohn's A minor String Quartet or Brahms's Symphony No. 3); other times a theme occurs in a different guise in every part (e.g. Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique", and Saint-Saëns's "Organ" Symphony).
La Caroline (C. P. E. Bach) La Caroline, Wq. 117/39, H. 98, is a character piece (or "piece de caractare") for solo keyboard in A minor, written by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Bach wrote several character pieces which were often grouped together and published as a set. These character pieces were based on similar works composed by François Couperin. "La Caroline" along with "La Philippine" (Wq 117/34, H. 96) may have been named after his daughter Anna Carolina Philippina.