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An Australian study supports this. A professor: "From the handwriting, it is clear
that she was the one who created some of the works; they do not look like transcriptions under dictation"
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It seems like absurd news to me... If anything, perhaps they were dictated to her for a
possible hand injury. It could be a plausible explanation if the fact of the different handwriting were true.
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Given the 20 children... I doubt the wife even had time to scribble for her husband. It must be said that at a certain point Bach, if I am not mistaken, went blind.
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Yes, but he became completely blind only shortly before his death
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We are waiting for the documentary "Written by Mrs Bach"
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We shall see
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I don't remember well, but it seems to me that I read that Anna Magdalena worked quite regularly as a copyist for her husband.
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It seems absurd to me too...
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Let's say it is strange to think about it, but I am very curious to understand what these physical proofs are. European musicology tends to favor a classical approach, but even these "creative" contributions can be useful
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Don't make me lose a myth, okay!
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Why couldn't it be that the wife, knowing both the compositions sketched or rehearsed by Bach and the performance practice, then wrote some works with ease, perhaps not under dictation, but precisely because she already knew the compositions being capable of performing them? Wouldn't that be so absurd, and regarding the "discovery," researchers would have made a mistake. But they will obviously have also thought of this and will have precise reasons for arriving at the assertion that what they will publish reflects the facts as they (presume) unfolded.
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To me, it seems like a repetition of the Taboga case from a few years ago regarding Mozart's works that were allegedly by Luchesi, including the Jupiter.... which is to say, an absolute hoax.
Guys, we are talking, among other things, about the Goldberg Variations, which is to say one of the greatest monuments of music.
I mean, the Goldberg Variations could not have been composed by just anyone but... only Bach!
Let's make a bet: in a little while, no one will remember this thing anymore!
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danielescarpetti wrote:Guys, we are talking, among other things, about the Goldberg Variations, which is to say one of the greatest monuments of music.
FranceMusique reports that according to this graphologist Anna Magdalena would have (the mandatory conditional) composed only the Aria of the Goldberg Variations, and not the entire collection. As usual, Italian journalism on musical matters is quite coarse.
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I am very skeptical about the fact that it was Bach's wife who composed some of the compositions; instead, I think that Bach knew how to give very precise instructions so that by dictating 4 bars, his wife could, through the Cantor's indications, derive others from them. I mean that Bach could dictate 4 bars and then say, now for 4 bars write them in contrary motion... and so on.
Let us remember that at the time, the condition of women was very different from today; I do not believe that Bach's wife could have had the opportunity to study counterpoint.
