On the left you see, [INAUDIBLE] We're just going to listen to this music and
I'm going to talk about this music for a little.
So here's Anna Magdalena's.
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Hand over here and here's her husband's hand over here and
they're virtually identical.
She taught him much about music.
And, undoubtedly, her style,
her style of calligraphy was influenced by him to the point that they're virtually.
Indistinguishable and sometimes scholars had difficulty telling the two apart.
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Well, when old Bach died in 1750 he was buried in a local parish church
no one paid much attention to him or his music, then something strange happened.
Around 1830, Bach's unappreciated music was rediscovered in part by
Felix Mendelsohn, and it rightly became usually popular.
The good citizens of Leipzig,
had begun to realize that they'd had in their midst a genius.
So what did they do?
They dug him up to measure his skull.
What? [LAUGH] Measure his skull?
Well, measure his skull, yes because at the end of the 19th century,
some scientists, one might say mad scientists, had a theory that having
a diminished size skull, being microcephalic, was a mark of genius.
So they dug him up, measured his skull, and found it to be completely normal.