1761 (London): Bachs Augenoperation

... But to proceed, I have seen a vast variety of singular animals, such as dromedaries, camels, &c. and particularly at Leipsick, where a celebrated master of music, who had already arriv’d to his 88th year, received his sight by my hands; it is with this very man that the famous Handel was first educated, and with whom I once thought to have had the same success, having all circumstances in his favour, motions of the pupil, light, &c. but upon drawing the curtain, we found the bottom defective, from a paralytic disorder.

Johan Taylor

Quelle: Bach-Dokumente, Band 3, Nr. 712