What did johann sebastian bach die from?
Bach’s health may have been in decline in 1749, as on 2 June, Heinrich von Brühl wrote to one of the Leipzig burgomasters to request that his music director, Gottlob Harrer, immediately begin to audition someone to succeed to the Thomascantor and Director musices posts “upon the eventual… decease of Mr. Bach.” Bach became increasingly blind, and a celebrated British quack John Taylor (who had operated unsuccessfully on Handel) operated on Bach while visiting Leipzig in 1750. Bach died on 28 July 1750 at the age of 65. A contemporary newspaper reported the cause of death was “from the unhappy consequences of the very unsuccessful eye operation”. Some modern historians speculate the cause of death was a stroke complicated by pneumonia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Seba… Bach was practically blind due to cataracts at the end of his life. Early in 1750, he was unsuccessfully treated for that by t
