Re: A bottomless pit of plagiarism

On 6/16/25 3:23 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:

Tangentially related, but I just happen to have posted a blog article on
it this morning, which I wrote a few days ago: For most of the 18th
century, printed music was considered uncopyrightable in Great Britain.
Johann Christian Bach, the son of Johann Sebastian Bach who had moved to
London, filed a lawsuit against a publisher that established in 1777
that it was copyrightable.

 [Hal Heydt]
IIRC (it gets mentioned on KDFC fairly regularly), JC was the
youngest surviving son of JS.  He also gets referenced as "the
London Bach" or "John Bach".  There were a *lot* of musical
Bachs...

The whole Bach family for generations was very musical. J. C. met the eight-year-old Mozart in London and influenced his musical development. The most noteworthy of Johann Sebastian's sons was Carl Philipp Emanuel. In the second half of the 18th century, when people talked about "Bach," the default assumption was that they meant C. P. E.
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