Explanations Needed
“He must explain his conduct within eight days. That scholar Rambach (the choir prefect) now appear, and be reproved for the disorders which up to this time have taken place between the scholars and the organist of the New Church.”
Ille.
“The organist, Bach, played for too long a time, but after this was notified to him, by the Herr Superintendent, he at once went quite to the opposite extreme and has made it too short.”
Ille.
“Accuse him (Rambach) of having gone to a wine-cellar last Sunday during the sermon.”
Ille.
“Was very sorry, and it should never happen again, and the clergy have already spoken to him very severely about it. The organist need not complain of him about the conducting, because it was undertaken not by him, but by the youth Schmidt.”
Nos.
“He must for the future behave quite differently and better, otherwise the gift which was intended for him would be withheld. If he has anything to remember against the organist, he must bring it forward at the proper place, and not take the law into his own hands, but behave in such a way as to give satisfaction, as he had promised. The servant of the Court is now ordered to tell the Rector to have Rambach imprisoned on four successive days for two hours each day.”