Mats Norrman wrote:

>Walter Meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>Also his long walk to Luebeck to hear Buxtehude play and how he extricated
>>himself from having to marry his elderly ugly daughter might, like the
>>other items, afford material for a film.
>
>Bach walked to Luebeck, but the rest of the story doesn't apply to
>Bach.  Another great composer visited Buxtehude in Luebeck (but came
>in a carrige, not walking), and was offered the job as organist after
>Buxtehude (Luebeck cathedral had one very fine churchorgan) in exchange
>for filling a condition.  When the main agreements about the job had been
>made, Buxtehudes beautiful (in this story) unmarried daugther (that appered
>to be the condition) entered the room, and G.F.Haendel, who got red in the
>face, hurriedly left the room, the contract, and Luebeck.

According to The New Grove, both are correct.  Handel went there in 1703;
Bach in 1704.  At that time Fraeulein Buxtehude was hovering around thirty
and not getting any younger while the hesitant bridegrooms would not yet
have been out of their teens.

Walter Meyer