Rebuke to Bach for inviting a female visitor into the choir loft: excerpt from the consistory proceedings

Actum, November 11, 1706

Ask him by what right he recently caused the unfamiliar maiden to be invited into the choir loft and let her make music there.

Right…’make music’.

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    Well as the saying goes: “He didn’t have any stops for his organ.”
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