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