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To the Editor:
I am writing to convey some of my opinions related to the reason of death of Johann Sebastian Bach, the great master of Baroque music.
Bach has the typical look of a metabolic syndrome patient in the pictures depicting his later life. He is overweight and his abdominal circumference is rather large. We learn from the memoirs of his second wife, Anna Magdelena,1 that Bach was quite a trencherman. He had a big appetite, particularly for food of animal origin. He enjoyed smoking tobacco and excessively consuming alcoholic beverages. His eating habits and the appearance in his pictures suggest the presence of diabetes. It is said that he was a rather picky, fastidious, and obstinate person. He was also diligent.
His wife's memoirs and many sources mention that he had impaired vision.1, 2, 3, 4 This is why he had eye surgery. Interestingly, some defined the English surgeon, John Taylor, who performed the operation on Bach's eye, as a charlatan and some others believed that he was a famous doctor.3, 4 Bach died from a stroke at the age of 65, about 4 months following the eye surgeries.
It is reported that John Taylor used a large amount of mercury as an antiseptic during the operation, in case of inflammation.3 Moreover, some substances that could be sources of
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Bach's burn-out?
Just before Christmas, researchers at the Bach Archive in Leipzig caused something of a sensation among music scholars. In municipal archives in the town of Döbeln, musicologist Michael Maul discovered an application letter (link in German) from the year 1751, written just a year after Johann Sebastian Bach's death.
The letter's author is Gottfried Benjamin Fleckeisen, by then a former member of Leipzig's Saint Thomas Boy Choir, and, as such, a former pupil of Bach's. In it, Fleckeisen is applying for a position as cantor at a church in his hometown of Döbeln in the state of Saxony. He boasts that he "had to lead and conduct" musical performances at the Saint Thomas and Saint Nikolai churches in Leipzig for "two entire years" and "completed that service with honor."
What's known of Fleckeisen's biography makes it possible to assume he's referring in those lines to the years 1744 to 1746.
Inward flight
"There's a huge discrepancy between the worldwide fame that Bach's music has today and what we really know about him as a person," said Michael Maul in an interview with DW. Maul heads a project at the Bach Archive that systematically investigates the lives of Bach's pupils. For that research, any new clue or trace can be helpful.
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