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The Blinding of Bach: Surgery, Secrets, and a Missing Grave
The Blinding of Bach: Surgery, Secrets, and a Missing Grave
A life that shaped Western music was erased in small, bureaucratic increments: an unfinished manuscript, sudden blindness, a stroke and death within months, and burial in an unmarked grave - and today the bones in St. Thomas Church may not even be his. How did the composer who copied forbidden scores by moonlight end up possibly unclaimed in the earth?
In this episode, we tell the story of Johann Sebastian Bach from his orphaned childhood in Eisenach through his secret copying of scores, travels for study, imprisonment for leaving a…
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