as sure as possible “within a reasonable degree of scientific certainty”.......... :huh:
Did Bach’s wife write his finest works?
Martin Jarvis, professor of music at Charles Darwin University in Australia, claims some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s best-loved works were actually written by his wife
A new documentary will now detail the analysis of ink and writing style to “prove” Mrs Bach had far more input than previously thought.
Presented by Sally Beamish, a British composer, (...)
Heidi Harralson, a forensic document examiner, (...)
While Anna is known to have transcribed for Bach in his later years, researchers found the handwriting did not have the “slowness or heaviness” usually attributed to someone who is merely copying, but was likely to have flowed from her own mind.
They also pointed to numerous corrections to scores written in her hand, signalling she is likely to have been composing it as she went along.
Beamish said the theory raised important questions about female composers, and had huge implications that could “transform” the confidence of young women hoping to make it today.
Ms Harralson said: “I think she is the author. The evidence is more in her favour than it is in Bach’s.” (...)