Omnibit Trivia 12-4-13 by William W. Lawrence Sr.
Dietrich Buxtehude, the great Danish composer and organist, must have had an ugly daughter. Johann Sebastian Bach, who at age 23 didn’t have a pfennig in his pocket, walked from Arnstadt to Lubeck, Germany to hear him play the organ.
Buxtehude, ready to retire tried to make a deal with young Bach. The organist job, if Bach would marry Fraulein Buxtehude. “Nein,” said Bach. George Handel, another promising musician, had rejected the offer two years earlier.