揭祕：巴赫部分名曲爲其妻子所作

An Australian academic claims to have found evidence to suggest that the wife of Johann Sebastian Bach wrote several of the German composer's acclaimed pieces.

With over 30 years of research and applying more recent training from forensic police, Associate Professor Martin Jarvis says he can clearly show that Anna Magdalena Wilcke, Bach's second wife, wrote several of the manuscripts previously credited to her famous husband.

"I don't doubt that the 'cello suites' are not written by Johan Sebastian," Jarvis, who is also conductor of the Darwin Orchestra, told reporters.

The music detective became suspicious about Bach's work when he was a teenaged student at the Royal Academy of Music in London. While playing Bach's "cello suites" he became convinced there was something wrong.

"In 2001, I deconstructed the 'cello' pieces and came up with 18 reasons why they weren't written by Bach," Jarvis said.

Over the years, he said he found two famous 1713 Bach manuscripts in Anna Magdalena's handwriting.

"When you consider I found manuscripts that pre-date by seven years when she was supposed to have met him, you have to ask yourself what's going on here," Jarvis said.

His final breakthrough came when he obtained a copy of a manuscript. Applying forensic analysis, he examined it thoroughly and found the inscription "Ecrite par Madam Bachen" on the manuscript's cover in the handwriting of a musician friend of Bach's. The word means "written by," not "copied by."

"So you bring all these bits together and there seems to be overwhelming evidence that she was involved," Jarvis said.

Bach married Anna Magdalena in 1721. He died in 1750.

日前，澳大利亞一名學者稱其發現可靠證據，證明德國著名作曲家約翰•塞巴斯蒂安•巴赫的幾首名曲實爲他的妻子所創作。

馬丁•賈維斯副教授表示，經過30多年的研究以及應用他剛剛掌握的法醫學鑑定技術，現在他有把握證明，巴赫生前的部分曲目實爲他的第二任妻子安娜•瑪格塔萊娜•魏亞蜜所作。

兼任達爾文管絃樂隊指揮的賈維斯在接受採訪時說：“我認爲《巴赫無伴奏大提琴組曲》的作者並不是巴赫。”

當賈維斯十幾歲在倫敦皇家音樂學院上學時，就對巴赫的作品產生了懷疑。而之後當他演奏《組曲》時，便確定了自己的這個想法。

賈維斯說：“2001年，我重新分析了《組曲》，並總結出18條理由來說明它爲什麼不是巴赫所作。”

據賈維斯介紹，在這幾年中他找到了兩本1713年的巴赫名曲手稿，並發現上面的文字是其妻子魏亞蜜的筆跡。

他說：“看看這些曲譜的年份，比世人公認的他們相識的時間早七年。這樣問題就很顯然了。”

賈維斯最終在一份手稿上的複印件上找到了突破口。經法醫學鑑定和仔細探查，賈維斯發現手稿的封面上有一行巴赫一位音樂友人的題字：“Ecrite par Madam Bachen”（法語：巴赫夫人作）。“Ecrite”意爲“創作”而不是“抄寫”。

賈維斯說：“把所有證據綜合起來，足可以證明：魏亞蜜也參與了創作。”

巴赫於1721年與魏亞蜜結婚，於1750年去世。