Peter Phillips

Our hero worship of Bach is to blame for rubbish like ‘Written By Mrs Bach’

‘Professor’ Martin Jarvis’s thesis that the wife of J.S. Bach wrote the cello suites is obviously rubbish — but so is the idea that Bach was a flawless genius

Written by Mrs Bach: Anna Magdelena Bach Photo: BBC 
issue 04 April 2015
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