[LUTE] Re: Written by Mrs. Bach
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 john.mardi...@asu.edu 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 howardpos...@ca.rr.com wrote: On Mar 1, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Rainer rads.bera_g...@t-online.de 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
[LUTE] Re: Written by Mrs. Bach
I think I had seen this programm last year. It was very interesting, but the list even should be shorter: Best regards Markus Am 01.03.2015 um 18:32 schrieb Rainer: 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... Here is a list of his most convincing arguments: 1. 2. 3. Rainer adS PS Some years ago Desanka Trbuhovic Gjuric claimed that Einstein's wife Mileva was involved in the discovery of the theory of the special theory of relativity. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- Markus Lutz Schulstraße 11 88422 Bad Buchau Tel 0 75 82 / 92 62 89 Fax 0 75 82 / 92 62 90 Mail mar...@gmlutz.de
[LUTE] Re: Written by Mrs. Bach
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 howardpos...@ca.rr.com wrote: On Mar 1, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Rainer rads.bera_g...@t-online.de 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
[LUTE] Re: Written by Mrs. Bach
On Mar 1, 2015, at 9:32 AM, Rainer rads.bera_g...@t-online.de 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
