Musical Times, October 1st, 2000
PETER WILLIAMS questions critical attitudes to evidence about Bach's life in three new publications
EVERYONE KNOWS that when Bach was a young organist, he was told off for taking a `strange maiden' into the organ-- loft; that as a little boy he copied music by moonlight and had his work confiscated by an SOB elder brother; and that on his deathbed, he dictated an appropriately pious chorale. Anecdotes can say a lot when critically interpreted, and a question to ask about books on Bach is not so much whether they `involve the latest thinking' in the sense of adopting some fashionable line of c...
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