Yes, yes, exactly ... he accepted a new job without getting his Lord's prior permission to apply for a new job. I was embarrassed to post because this is from memory and I, too, forgot the name of the Nasty Big Cheese who threw JS Bach into the can.
Bob
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"Cline, Eric" wrote:
IIRC, Bach wanted to take a better job at Anhalt-Cothen and was put in jail
for "resigning too eagerly" by his employer (the Duke of Weimar ?). It's
been awhile since I read this.Eric Cline x 8116
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(Click here to go to the Reichhold home page)-----Original Message-----
From: Baldwin, Daniel [mailto:baldwin@baermarks.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 9:18 AM
To: 'jphill@home.com'; 'bobmer@javanet.com'
Cc: f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
Subject: RE: J.S. Bach in the HouseI'm not sure of the crime, but I know JSB was treated well
in prison -- they
gave him his own Suite, with a full set of keys, and
occasionally he was
allowed to go out into a Chorale.Toccata go now --
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: John Hill [mailto:jphill@home.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 16, 1999 12:04 AM
To: Elmer Elevator
Cc: brian scott gaona; DjangoGrap@aol.com;
f_minor@email.rutgers.edu
Subject: J.S. Bach in the HouseElmer Elevator wrote:
>
> This thread should remind and caution us all about the
limited rewards of
a
> lifetime of striving to be good, rational, well-behaved,
well-groomed,
> law-abiding, normal, conservative, sin-free,
family-values-oriented, and
even
> professionally holy. JS Bach STILL did a few weeks in
jail. (And I don't
> think Mozart ever did.)Really? J.S. did some time in the Big House?
I guess I missed that part. What was the charge...
too many parallel octaves in a Burlesca? Fill us in, Bob...jh