The Boston Globe, March 20th, 2000
Johann Sebastian Bach was a collector of scores, and he used his collection to teach himself anything about music he didn't already know, which wasn't much. Christopher Hogwood's plan for yesterday afternoon's Handel & Haydn Society concert was to program music from Bach's library, specifically music that Bach might have learned something from. The concert opened with an orchestral suite by Johann Bernhard Bach. Bach was very interested in the music of his relatives; J. B. Bach was a cousin 9 years older. J. S. Bach copied all of J. B. Bach's suites in his own hand and performed them in Leipzi...
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