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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2008-01-10 21:55
The infant mortality rate in these times was way higher than today.
I knew JSB was a very [re]productive man, but I didn't know he had twenty children!
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Ben
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Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2008-01-10 22:00
Peter Schickele, in, I think, his first record, said that "PDQ was the oddest of Bach's 20-odd children."
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Author: marcia
Date: 2008-01-11 06:05
And I believe Peter goes on to say...."some say the oddest of the bunch"
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Author: NorbertTheParrot
Date: 2008-01-11 08:25
9 of Bach's 20 children died in the first few years of their lives. One died aged 24. Ten survived their father.
No descendants of Bach are known today.
Bach's youngest child, Regina Susanna, was born in 1742 and died in 1809. PDQ Bach was born in 1807 and died in 1742.
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-01-11 11:45
NorbertTheParrot wrote:
> Bach's 20 children
Music historians frequently write about Bach's Passions
...GBK
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-01-11 12:19
>>Music historians frequently write about Bach's Passions >>
Oh, yes. One of Bach's many fusses with church bureaucracy had to do with bluenoses complaining that he took a woman (whom he later married--I've forgotten whether this was his first wife or his second) up to the organ loft. That conservative church still maintained the rule of St. John that "women shall be silent in church." Women were not allowed in the organ loft. Bach got caught in the act of giving her an organ lesson. No, not *that* kind of organ lesson!--at least, not right at that moment, when he was caught giving her a lesson on the *pipe* organ, although I suspect that the usual organ jokes probably date back to the days of the hydraulis....
He's my favorite composer. Purists might object, but I think one of the great pleasures of the clarinet comes from filching the first five of Bach's solo cello sonatas and partitas. The sixth, written for a five-stringed instrument, doesn't work on a clarinet without a lot of monkeying around, but the first five make me wish the clarinet as we know it today had been invented early enough to tempt him to write for it.
Lelia
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Author: Mike Clarinet
Date: 2008-01-11 12:19
Didn't he used to practice on an old spinster in the attic?
(corrected spelling mistake )
Post Edited (2008-01-11 12:38)
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Author: GBK
Date: 2008-01-11 12:26
Lelia Loban wrote:
> complaining that he took a woman (whom he later married--
> I've forgotten whether this was his first wife or his second)
> up to the organ loft.
He didn't have to look very far - it was Maria Barbara Bach, his second cousin on his father's side.
...GBK
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Author: NorbertTheParrot
Date: 2008-01-11 12:31
Lelia wrote: "although I suspect that the usual organ jokes probably date back to the days of the hydraulis"
The "usual organ jokes" don't exist in German, where the instrument is "Orgel", and "Organ" is used for other meanings of the word. French makes a similar distinction.
Also, it was St Paul, not St John, who commanded women to be silent in church.
Post Edited (2008-01-11 12:32)
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Author: Mark Charette
Date: 2008-01-11 12:41
NorbertTheParrot wrote:
> Also, it was St Paul, not St John, who commanded women to be
> silent in church.
And we all know how well that worked. 
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Author: Cass Tech
Date: 2008-01-11 14:25
Lelia:
Do you know Rostropovich's version of the suites? Awesome.
Cass Tech (aka leatherlip)
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Author: Lelia Loban ★2017
Date: 2008-01-11 19:44
Thanx for the correction re. St. Paul, NorbertThe Parrot.
>>The "usual organ jokes" don't exist in German, where the instrument is "Orgel", and "Organ" is used for other meanings of the word. French makes a similar distinction.
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True. Good point. I wonder what slang meanings the word "hydraulis" may have had in ancient Greek and Latin?
Cass Tech, yes, I've got the Rostropovic recording of the suites and heard him play one of them live. Yes--awesome. (I do wish he'd stuck to the cello, though, because I dropped my season ticket to the National Symphony Orchestra after he started using it to learn how to conduct....)
Lelia
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