Word: arnstadt
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...unwritten law at St. Mary's required the new organist to marry his predecessor's wife or daughter. Buxtehude's daughter was so old and ugly that Bach went back to his organ post at Arnstadt. Authorities there began to complain that the congregation could not sing to his "many, wonderful variations" and "strange tonalities." Buxtehude had given Bach a technique instead of a bride...
...wakes for the dead assumed an insane gaiety. While germs raged, one male dancer would feign death and a bevy of girls would hover around him, attempting to kiss him back to life. Such aberrations were widely spread. A band of German children danced hectically from Erfurt to Arnstadt (12 mi.), many of them dying on the way, the rest living on, completely shattered mentally. Another troupe danced on a bridge at Marburg, until the bridge collapsed and all were drowned...
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