Major J S Bach investment disclosed
mainEberhard Spree, a double-bass player in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, has uncovered a trove of Johann Sebastian Bach documents in an archive in the Freiberg district.
The papers reveal Bach’s investment activities in the last decade of his life in a local silver mine. The prevailing image of the composer is that of a municipal employee who served as Cantor of St Thomas’s. It may be that he was more shrewd than scholars have previously credited.
Here’s the original report in German with a picture of the proud bassist.
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