Johann Gottfried Bernhard Bach, Part II
But Bernhard did not remain in the
Muehlhausen post for very long. Sixteen
months later, [Johann Sebastian] Bach contacted Johann Friedrich Klemm of
Sangerhausen, son of Johann Jacob Klemm, with whom he had dealt way back in
1702 as a candidate for the post of town organist in Sangerhausen. “I have dared,” he wrote,” to take the
liberty (since I have heard that the organist of the Lower Church has died and
the vacancy will probably soon be filled) of obediently asking you . . . not
only for your gracious patronage on behalf of a person who is very close to me,
but also to show me in this matter the special faveur of sending me mostly kindly a gracious note on the salary of
the vacant post.” Additional
correspondence with Sangerhausen followed, and again, thanks to his father’s
intervention, Bernhard was invited to audition on January 13, 1737, was elected
the following day, and quit his Muehlhausen post about a month later.
source: S: Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York: Norton, 2000), p. 399.
source: S: Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (New York: Norton, 2000), p. 399.
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