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Date:
Wed, 24 Mar 1999 23:03:33 +0100
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Re: JSB - 3/21
From:
Frank en Janneke <[log in to unmask]>
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Eric Kisch responds to David Gable:

>>Er ist kein Bach: er ist ein Meer.
>
>My recollection is that the remark was made by Beethoven.

"Nicht Bach sondern Meer soll er heissen" ("His name should not be Bach
(brook) but Meer (lake)" is what Beethoven said according to my books.

Frank

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