Johann ludwig krebs biography of christopher
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A Crayfish in my Stream
Johann Ludwig Krebs
By all accounts, Johann Sebastian Bach was a stern and exacting teacher. Since he had no time to waste — he was after all in charge of music at the four principal churches in Leipzig, taught students at the St. Thomas school and directed the Collegium Musicum, a voluntary association of professional musicians and university students — Bach could be disarmingly direct in his advice to his students. On one occasion he suggested to an unfortunate young charge, “Just practice diligently and you will do very well. You have five fingers on each hand just as healthy as mine.” He also offered remarkable simple advice to a struggling organ student, “Organ playing is nothing remarkable, all one has to do is hit the right notes at the right time and the instrument plays itself.” When Bach compared the playing of a certain bassoonist to the bleating of a nanny goat, the offended player and five accomplices ambushed Bach in the night, and challenged him to a duel. Bach drew his ceremonial sword and a brief fight ensued. Apparently, school authorities cited Bach for failure to get along with his students, and the students received a mild reprimand for threatening Bach’s life. However,
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Krebs
Krebs is the German and Danish word for "crab" and "cancer" (in German, both the zodiac sign and the disease; in Danish the latter is "kræft"). It may refer to:
Places
[edit]- Krebs Formation, a geologic formation in Missouri
- Krebs Group, a geologic group in Oklahoma, preserving fossils dating back to the Carboniferous period
- Krebs, Oklahoma, a city in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, nicknamed "Little Italy"
- Krebs-see, a lake in Kreis Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
- Mount Krebs, a 1,630 metres rock peak, in the ridge of Lillie Range, near the foothills of the Prince Olav Mountains, Antarctica
- Krebs Ridge, on the east coast of Palmer Land, Antarctica
People
[edit]- Abbie E. Krebs-Wilkins (1842–1924), American businesswoman
- Albert Krebs (1899–1974), the German Nazi Gauleiter in Hamburg in the time of the Third Reich
- Allen Krebs, Marxian economics professor who founded the Free University of New York (FUNY)
- Andreas Samuel Krebs (1766–1818), Danish-Norwegian army officer
- Angelika Krebs (born 1961), German philosopher
- Annabell Krebs Culverwell (1902–1998), AnnaBell took the name Columba when signing her paintings and writings,
- Arthur Constantin Krebs (1850–1935), French officer and pioneer in automotive engineering
- Beatrice Krebs (1924–20
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