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BBC R3 Documentary - 'Total Eclipse'
Broadcast in the 'Twenty Minutes' Series
Presented by Simon Heighes
Broadcast August 20, 2009
Coded from a digital source at 128/44.1

BBC Blurb
Simon Heighes and Professor Daniel M Albert, an ophthalmic surgeon
with a special interest in the history of medicine, discuss the story of the
flamboyant English 'doctor' who blinded the two greatest figures in
Baroque music - Bach and Handel.


John Taylor was a charlatan - a charismatic, womanising practitioner who
lied his way to treat popes, royalty and anyone else who could afford his
high fees. He treated Bach, after the composer's failing sight prevented
him from continuing to work on The Art of Fugue, performing a procedure
known as 'couching' - using a needle to pierce the composer's eyes and
displace his cataracts. Some months after his operation - after days filled
with pain, fever and vivid hallucinations - Bach died, leaving his great
work incomplete.

When Taylor was called upon to treat the eyes of London's foremost
musical celebrity, Handel, he completely blinded him and the composer
never wrote music again.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taylor_(oculist)

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