Greg Conn ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>>Wasn't J.S.  Bach largely self-taught and untrained though?

and Deryk Barker responded:

>Given that several generations of Bachs before JS were musicians, I think
>not.

Yet according to some remarks of Robert Levin at concert he played, Bach
was considered not really qualified for the St. Thomas job because he did
not have a university degree!!  He was hired only after the first two
candidates, each with a degree,turned the job down,

Bernard Chasan