exactly 13 children in 19 years 1723 -1742. As for mistakes, they can be found in many old manuscripts and this fact doesn’t prove anything at all.
JL > Wiadomość napisana przez John Mardinly <[email protected]> w dniu 1 mar > 2015, o godz. 22:24: > > I thought she had 13 sons... > > Sent from my iPhone. > John Mardinly > 408 921 3253 > >> On Mar 1, 2015, at 12:09 PM, "howard posner" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Mar 1, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Rainer <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Has any lute-netter in Germany or Switzerland seen "Written by Mrs. Bach" >>> on 3SAT yesterday evening? >>> >>> A certain Martins Jarvis claims that Anna Magdalena composed some of Bach's >>> finest works. Very funny… >> >> That would be Martin Jarvis, not the British actor, but a professor at >> Charles Darwin University (or Chuck D U, as the rappers call it) in >> Australia. >> >> This has come up before on this list. Anna Magdalena, Bach’s second wife, >> was his copyist. Don’t ask me where she found the time, but I suppose when >> you’re constantly dealing with a house full of children and you’re pregnant >> 12 times in 25 years (that’s nine years of pregnancy), you need a hobby you >> can do sitting down. >> >> The Jarvis theory is that her copy of the cello suites shows the sort of >> errors and whatnot that are made when composing rather than copying. I’m >> not kidding. (It's rather like my own theory that Beethoven was a >> talentless hack, and the greatest composer in history was the typesetter who >> had to decipher his illegible manuscripts; the difference is that I’ve never >> gone pubic with it. Oops…) Cellist Steven Isserlis discusses (well, disses) >> the “theory” (Jarvis’s, not mine) here: >> >> http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/oct/29/why-bach-wife-cannot-take-credit-for-his-cello-masterwork >> >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
