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...really fall flat on your face by releasing something prematurely," Wolff said yesterday. "I was sure they were Bach, but I was doing a lot of double checking," he added...
...Although Wolff was not the first to notice the attributions to "J.S. Bach" and "Joh. Sebast. Bach" in the collection of 17th-and 18th-century manuscripts, he was the first to analyze the pieces, which had been previously disregarded as shams...
...first evidence was lacking--the manuscripts were widely regarded as spurious," Plantinga said. "But [Wolff] is a very good scholar who does his work well, and if he thinks they're real, that convinces me that they are," he added...
...manuscripts were not in Bach's handwriting, but the copyist signed the composer's name at the top of the music. Wolff said that stylistic patterns and internal symbols convinced him that the copyist's attributions were correct...
...Wolff's discovery "was like finding the tail to Halley's comet in the middle of Fresh Pond Parkway," said Daniel Pinkham '44, the chairman of the Early Music Performances Department at the New England Conservatory of Music...