![]() ![]() While Bach lay on his supposed deathbed, a musician, Gottlob Harrer, gave the council a ''trial performance''Īs a candidate for Bach's job. ![]() In 1749, though, lacking such expert care, Bach recovered - much to the disappointment, it seems, of Leipzig's city council. Such ''harmful medicaments,'' as one account puts it, caused Bach's death in 1750. ![]() Included rubbing the eye with a brush and draining the area of half a teacup of blood. The following year he was seen by the eye specialist who was also to operate on Handel, whose treatment may have N Leipzig in the spring of 1749, after 26 years of providing music for the city's church services, tutoring Latin, disciplining students, programmingĬoncerts and writing a stupefying collection of masterpieces, Bach fell ill with a serious eye disease. An Interview With Christoph Wolff, Recorded on April 5, 2000.According to this biography, Bach was determined to figure out the laws of his sonic universe. ![]()
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