An Inveterate Borrower J S Bach's Köthener Trauermusik - impresses ROBERT ANDERSON '... incomparable music ...'

Bach was an inveterate borrower from himself and others, so this reconstruction of the Prince Leopold funeral music has every justification. Forkel seems to have been in possession of the original as late as 1818, since when it has disappeared. Bach had great admiration for his previous employer at Cöthen, who died far too young in his early thirties. Bach had remained in touch with Cöthen, where his second wife Anna Magdalena had also been employed...

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH

GERMANY

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