[MusicFree]

http://www.newhistorian.com/bachs-wife-actually-composer-greatest-masterpieces/1969/

this is back in november 2014...but still interesting

what do you guys think?

 

[Art Rock]

Not this again, please.

 

[Morimur]

http://www.newhistorian.com/bachs-wife-actually-composer-greatest-masterpieces/1969/

this is back in november 2014...but still interesting

what do you guys think?

Are you insane? Everyone knows women can't write music.

Geez!

 

[isorhythm]

Jarvis' investigation began when he was a student at the Royal Academy of Music in London, when he himself was first playing the cello suites. In his mind, these compositions were very different to the other pieces Bach wrote, which aroused his suspicions.

This is not a promising beginning for his "investigation."

 

[DavidA]

This thesis has been roundly dismissed. There is no real evidence for it whatsoever. Just why the BBC broadcast a programme on this is beyond me.

 

[millionrainbows]

http://www.newhistorian.com/bachs-wife-actually-composer-greatest-masterpieces/1969/

this is back in november 2014...but still interesting

what do you guys think?

Yes, and Einstein's wife really came up with the relativity theory, and Henry David Thoreau's wife brought him pies and did his laundry for him while he was 'roughing it' out on Walden Pond.

Men without women, and what do they do? They start armies.

 

[KenOC]

And Beethoven's wife...well, never mind. :lol:

 

[Morimur]

Yes, wives — where would Adam be without Eve?

Try the fruit, she said; it's good to eat, she said . . . OY VEY!

 

[millionrainbows]

And Beethoven's wife...well, never mind. :lol:

...And Aaron Copland's wife...and Henry Cowell's wife...John Harbison's wife...Charles Wourinen's wife...Ravel's wife...Debussy's wife...never mind.:lol:

 

[millionrainbows]

...and John Williams' wife used to play Lazer Tag with him...

 

[Mahlerian]

...And Aaron Copland's wife...and Henry Cowell's wife...John Harbison's wife...Charles Wourinen's wife...Ravel's wife...Debussy's wife...never mind.:lol:

Two of these don't fit with the others....

And for your information Wuorinen is in fact married...just not to a woman!

 

[ArtMusic]

Interesting theory. I keep an open mind but in the absence of convincing evidence other than circumstantial conjecture and broad opinion, I would hesitate.

 

[arpeggio]

Actually all of his music was composed by Shakespeare.

When playing organ in England one summer, he found a trunk with all this music that was composed by Shakespeare. He just put his name on the manuscript and took credit for it.

 

[Barbebleu]

No!
Stupidly I can't have a one word answer so I've tagged on this superfluous tripe.

 

[Metairie Road]

Classical music conspiracy theories - Now that's a subject that needs looking into. Lots of potential there. I hope the History Channel is working on it. A good way to introduce classical music to the legions of moronic couch-potatoes who watch the History Channel.

An obvious choice for the first episode - Who killed Mozart?

 

[Headphone Hermit]

I hope the History Channel is working on it.

Nah! They're trying to work on 'What happened to the Aussie's first innings at the Nottingham test?' ..... but they're struggling to get a one hour programme out of it :devil:

 

[Cosmos]

Classical music conspiracy theories - Now that's a subject that needs looking into. Lots of potential there. I hope the History Channel is working on it. A good way to introduce classical music to the legions of moronic couch-potatoes who watch the History Channel.

An obvious choice for the first episode - Who killed Mozart?

If this were ever featured on the History Channel I think we all know what they'd claim:

Who REALLY wrote Bach's music?

 

[SimonNZ]

Were The JS Bach Works That Were Actually Written By Bach's Second Wife Actually Written By His First Wife?

...whoops, wrong thread

Was Jack the Ripper actually the Loch Ness Monster?

 

[Clairvoyance Enough]

I just did a skim-binge through all of the Bach cantatas and in my opinion she wrote all of the stuff I didn't like.

 

[Chipomarc]

How often do you guys wake up in the middle of the night with an anxiety attack over Bach's 'Goldberg Variations, no. 26' decision to change the time signature in the middle of a measure (at the beginning of the excerpt, the lower staff is in 3/4, the upper in 18/16) :lol: