Walter Meyer wrote:
>It's on occasions like these that it might be well to remember that J.S.
>Bach was the congregation's third choice for cantor of the Thomaskirche in
>Leipzig.
Wow! I wonder what the first two were like!
Jon Johanning // [log in to unmask]
[Soemwhat accomplished composers themselves: Georg Philipp Telemann and
Christoph Graupner. Telemann was their first choice. He was actually
elected cantor, thought it over long and hard, then decided to stay at his
position in Hamburg. Their second choice Graupner was the Kapellmeister
to the Landgrave of Hesse who refused to let him take the new position
(similar to Bach's experience at Weimar). -Dave]