Of because of classic crisis. More events, increasing audience numbers and dozens of choirs, Johann Sebastian Bach interpret works around the world, bring the Leipzig Bach festival lasting recovery.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
On the Thomaskirchhof in Leipzig
Long as you don’t know where Johann Sebastian Bach is buried. They had found his resting place, finally, and verified, the company dimension and the shape of his skull as the basis for the “New Bach monument” (1908), which stands in front of the side entrance of Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Approach using the latest technology
Using computer technology and new forensic methods, an attempt has been made in 2008 for an exhibition in the Eisenach Bach house, to reconstruct Bach’s physiognomy. Possible that the composer has looked like this. Certainty will probably never be…
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
In Eisenach born
In Thuringia the Name “Bach” was synonymous with “musician”. The wide-branched family was represented, from Erfurt to Weimar, Arnstadt, Ohrdruf and Eisenach, where Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685. Later, he listed 53 members of the family, mostly as a Church or court musician. In the case of family fixed what was else? – play music.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Pugnacious young man
Johann Sebastian was an orphan before he was ten years old. He lived and learned in his 18-year-older brother Johann Christoph in Ohrdruf. Over its youth little is known except that he absorbed every music, which he found. It is recorded that he once found unflattering words for the game of other musician. The argument escalated and it almost came to a duel.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Mary’s Church, Lübeck
Today you can hear music everywhere – thanks to mobile phones and the Internet. But when the young Bach wanted to hear a certain music, he ran more than 330 kilometers on foot. In the Marienkirche in Lübeck, there was the famous evening music of Dieterich Buxtehude. Both Buxtehude, as well as the over 80-year-old Johann Adam Reincken in Hamburg, influenced Bach’s the art of the Organ.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Court Kapellmeister in Weimar
As a 23-Year-old Bach, Kapellmeister at the court in Weimar and wrote in the following nine years, his first cantatas-mostly works, as well as the majority of his organ pieces. In 1717, an even better place was and then for him, but in Weimar, you want to not let him go. As he insisted, he had to atone for because of his disobedience, a one-month prison sentence.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
The happiest time: Köthen
The first years as court Kapellmeister in cöthen for Bach, probably the happiest of his life. Thanks to his friendship with the music-loving Prince Leopold and a well-equipped orchestra was created here many of his instrumental works. As Leopold, a little music-savvy woman married, the work deteriorated conditions, and Bach was looking for another job.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Thomas school
Today, Leipzig is proud of Bach. To was lifetime, this is not necessarily the case: As Cantor of St. Thomas Church he was the third choice. Among his responsibilities, to compose each week, a new cantata and perform it. After a few years Bach, however, was in a permanent clinch with Church and city authorities, so that he was looking for a job in Gdansk and Dresden – in vain.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
In The Family Circle
20 children with two wives, had Bach. Only nine of his children survived him, and four of his sons became famous musicians. He did everything to the Tradition of the music of the Bach family. You ended but already with his sons: the next Generation, not musicians anymore.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Money worries
As a father of many children and husband who had to pay for the family, complained Bach and the high cost of living in Leipzig. Kick-off he took but also the fact that, by the healthy air and fewer Deaths. Why? Due to the unusual musical arrangement of funerals, revenue decreased by Bach.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Coffee-House Carpenter
Strenuous school children, armed with the powers that be, annoying obligations, little appreciation of The life of the Thomas Cantor was hard. For relaxation Johann Sebastian Bach went to Leipzig coffee-house carpenter and played music with friends and students of the Leipzig Collegium musicum.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Haußmann Portrait
It is a historically well-documented portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach: this painting by the Leipzig painter Elias Gottlob Haussmann from the year 1748 exists. More than 60 years it hung in the living room of the US-American musicologist, historian and patron William Scheide in Princeton, New Jersey. In 2015, his widow gave the image to the Bach archive Leipzig.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Soli Deo Gloria
Many of his compositions Bach wrote “S. D. G.” (Soli Deo Gloria): “to God alone the glory” – even works that were not intended for the purposes of the Church. This is a deeply felt, personal religiousness, close. Even in the case of a pure use of music aspired to Bach, always to absolute perfection – well maybe that was an expression of his faith.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Each stream can?
To 334. Birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach continued to Google this subject on its search mask. It invites interactivity: In the next step, you can compose a melody “”. According to computer-controlled analysis of hundreds of Bach’s compositions, you will be equipped with polyphonic accompaniment in the Bach style. Whether the result is as awesome as the Original, may be questioned.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
On the Thomaskirchhof in Leipzig
Long as you don’t know where Johann Sebastian Bach is buried. They had found his resting place, finally, and verified, the company dimension and the shape of his skull as the basis for the “New Bach monument” (1908), which stands in front of the side entrance of Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Approach using the latest technology
Using computer technology and new forensic methods, an attempt has been made in 2008 for an exhibition in the Eisenach Bach house, to reconstruct Bach’s physiognomy. Possible that the composer has looked like this. Certainty will probably never be…
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
In Eisenach born
In Thuringia the Name “Bach” was synonymous with “musician”. The wide-branched family was represented, from Erfurt to Weimar, Arnstadt, Ohrdruf and Eisenach, where Johann Sebastian Bach was born in 1685. Later, he listed 53 members of the family, mostly as a Church or court musician. In the case of family fixed what was else? – play music.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Pugnacious young man
Johann Sebastian was an orphan before he was ten years old. He lived and learned in his 18-year-older brother Johann Christoph in Ohrdruf. Over its youth little is known except that he absorbed every music, which he found. It is recorded that he once found unflattering words for the game of other musician. The argument escalated and it almost came to a duel.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Mary’s Church, Lübeck
Today you can hear music everywhere – thanks to mobile phones and the Internet. But when the young Bach wanted to hear a certain music, he ran more than 330 kilometers on foot. In the Marienkirche in Lübeck, there was the famous evening music of Dieterich Buxtehude. Both Buxtehude, as well as the over 80-year-old Johann Adam Reincken in Hamburg, influenced Bach’s the art of the Organ.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Court Kapellmeister in Weimar
As a 23-Year-old Bach, Kapellmeister at the court in Weimar and wrote in the following nine years, his first cantatas-mostly works, as well as the majority of his organ pieces. In 1717, an even better place was and then for him, but in Weimar, you want to not let him go. As he insisted, he had to atone for because of his disobedience, a one-month prison sentence.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
The happiest time: Köthen
The first years as court Kapellmeister in cöthen for Bach, probably the happiest of his life. Thanks to his friendship with the music-loving Prince Leopold and a well-equipped orchestra was created here many of his instrumental works. As Leopold, a little music-savvy woman married, the work deteriorated conditions, and Bach was looking for another job.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Thomas school
Today, Leipzig is proud of Bach. To was lifetime, this is not necessarily the case: As Cantor of St. Thomas Church he was the third choice. Among his responsibilities, to compose each week, a new cantata and perform it. After a few years Bach, however, was in a permanent clinch with Church and city authorities, so that he was looking for a job in Gdansk and Dresden – in vain.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
In The Family Circle
20 children with two wives, had Bach. Only nine of his children survived him, and four of his sons became famous musicians. He did everything to the Tradition of the music of the Bach family. You ended but already with his sons: the next Generation, not musicians anymore.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Money worries
As a father of many children and husband who had to pay for the family, complained Bach and the high cost of living in Leipzig. Kick-off he took but also the fact that, by the healthy air and fewer Deaths. Why? Due to the unusual musical arrangement of funerals, revenue decreased by Bach.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Coffee-House Carpenter
Strenuous school children, armed with the powers that be, annoying obligations, little appreciation of The life of the Thomas Cantor was hard. For relaxation Johann Sebastian Bach went to Leipzig coffee-house carpenter and played music with friends and students of the Leipzig Collegium musicum.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Haußmann Portrait
It is a historically well-documented portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach: this painting by the Leipzig painter Elias Gottlob Haussmann from the year 1748 exists. More than 60 years it hung in the living room of the US-American musicologist, historian and patron William Scheide in Princeton, New Jersey. In 2015, his widow gave the image to the Bach archive Leipzig.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Soli Deo Gloria
Many of his compositions Bach wrote “S. D. G.” (Soli Deo Gloria): “to God alone the glory” – even works that were not intended for the purposes of the Church. This is a deeply felt, personal religiousness, close. Even in the case of a pure use of music aspired to Bach, always to absolute perfection – well maybe that was an expression of his faith.
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Johann Sebastian Bach – stations of his life
Each stream can?
To 334. Birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach continued to Google this subject on its search mask. It invites interactivity: In the next step, you can compose a melody “”. According to computer-controlled analysis of hundreds of Bach’s compositions, you will be equipped with polyphonic accompaniment in the Bach style. Whether the result is as awesome as the Original, may be questioned.
After the big breakthrough, the stream experienced the Leipzig festival of 2018, was the most frequently asked question: Can this continue? In his first year as artistic Director, Bach had advanced researcher Michael Maul of the program by one third – from approximately 100 to approximately 150 events. The audience moved. The Total capacity of the festival increased and stood at over 90 percent.
Presented, among other things, Bach’s most popular Church cantatas – a Program line-up that fits to Leipzig. So Johann Sebastian Bach spent the last 27 years of his life as Cantor at the Thomas Church in Leipzig. The Church music was his main field of activity.
Bach Festival Artistic Director Michael Maul
Like tops?
In the following season in 2019, from 14. up to the 23. June, however, it is no longer the Cantor of St. Thomas Church but to the “Hof-Compositeur Bach”. The focus is works that he wrote largely in front of his Leipzig time he was employed on various farms. These include the Brandenburg concertos, the violin concertos and solo works for various instruments – some of the most popular works from Bach’s pen.
“Last year we had guests from 47 countries, but in terms of internationality still on the accelerator,” said Michael Maul, most recently, in the case of a notice of the program to 2020. “After a systematic search, we have actually 219 Bach choirs and societies throughout the world found.” To you an invitation went to Leipzig with the Option there, in the places of perform, the very place where Johann Sebastian Bach has even even music.
In Leipzig, it would be hard to forget that one is in the Bach city of
A leading role
65 Bach-companies from all over the world said then, at his own cost at the musical summit as part of the “East Malaysian Bach Singers” on the Bach society of Paraguay to meet to “The Choir of Trinity Wall Street” in New York. With a smile, the mouth tells, as the Latter would have been promptly reported back: “We want to take your Festival a leading role!”
The choir singers of the Wall Street will, however, have to compete with 64 other choirs and Bach-companies from 21 countries. In accordance with the old Tradition of family feasts in the widely ramified Bach family, the Bach is given the title firmly in 2020, “We Are Family”. On the program works of Johann Sebastian Bach’s ancestors and sons and various other Relatives, the professionals interpret then. On the other hand, various Bach-companies from all over the world are wearing 34 events a complete choir cantata cycle with 62 stations.
Of course, the boys will be at the Bach festival
Director Michael foot himself was astonished at the response: “These pieces were written as songs for a particular Church in Leipzig, but will be interpreted today in the world of people who are not Protestants, and, perhaps, not the lyrics. And yet, this music is able to not only have an effect, but also to convince the people, now, to travel thousands of miles to make music where Bach is buried.”