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Snippet: The New Yorker’s Alex Ross has become the second journalist — out of more than 50 who, according to Google News, have written about the story in the last week — to treat with even a modicum of skepticism Charles Darwin University musicologist Martin Jarvis’s theory that Johann Sebastian Bach’s Cello Suites were written by his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach.

National Review Online broke the story Wednesday that Jarvis’s thesis is almost totally unsupported, slanderously speculative, and rejected by legitimate scholars of the 17th- and 18th-century musician. Ross followed up on Halloween with a report that contains some important new information (and a commendable New Yorker attention to the details of diacritical marks):

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/391688/back-bach-lies-d (Open in New Window)

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Topic - J.S. Bach and the tortured thesis of Martin Jarvis... - regmac 06:52:21 11/03/14 (3)

RE: J.S. Bach and the tortured thesis of Martin Jarvis... - fantja 08:29:34 11/05/14 (0)

Who wrote... - mkuller 08:20:58 11/03/14 (1)

The story he linked has more to do with journalistic (ir)responsibility than music... - musetap 09:39:40 11/03/14 (0)

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