WRITTEN BY MRS BACH: BROKEN SILENCE

By Alex MCCALL

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Art - Culture - Completed 2017

An investigation into whether some of Johann Sebastian Bach’s most famous works might actually have been composed by his second wife, Anna Magdalena.

    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Art - Culture, Documentary
    • Countries
    • UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH
    • Duration
    • 83 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Alex MCCALL
    • Producer(s)
    • Pamela KAUFMAN
    • Synopsis
    • Did Johann Sebastian Bach compose all of his best loved works? Or was the real maestro his second wife, Anna Magdalena? Shaking the classical world to the core, Professor Martin Jarvis has spent over 30 years in a quest to uncover the truth, for the first time using forensic science to determine who really penned the manuscripts. Despite ferocious resistance from the Bach orthodoxy, he exposes the centuries-old conspiracy to silence the genius of women composers…