Klarinet Archive - Posting 000166.txt from 2005/11

From: OhSuzan419@-----.com
Subj: Re: [kl] Conversion - Bach
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 17:39:10 -0500


In a message dated 11/9/2005 3:05:54 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
jhf@-----.gov writes:

<<Most curious. Would you happen to know why, in Vienna, he would become
a Lutheran, rather than a Roman Catholic?>>

Bach was a devout German Lutheran, born and bred. His most well-known
position was as Cantor of the Thomaskirke in Leipzig, 1723 -1750.

Susan

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