J. S. Bach takes center stage

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The parallel transmission of North German and French organ and keyboard music in Central German sources around 1700 is one of the fascinating intertwining phenomena of 17th and 18th century instrumental music. Just four years after Johann Sebastian Bach's death, both organ traditions are mentioned in the same breath in his necrology ("In the art of organ playing, he took Bruhnsen's, Reinken's, Buxtehude's and some good French organists' works as models"). The repertoire histories delineated here - from northern Germany and from Paris - function explicitly as inspiration for the compositional work and must therefore also be considered in their interactions. Three manuscripts from the estate of Bach's pupil Johann Ludwig Krebs, which were created in Weimar, have not yet revealed their secrets. The conference will bring together scholars and artists to open up new research and interpretation perspectives on this corpus of sources. With scientific, artistic and artistic-scientific contributions by: Christine Blanken (Bach-Archiv Leipzig), Ingo Bredenbach (Kirchenmusikhochschule Tübingen), Louis Delpech (HfMT), Pieter Dirksen (Culemborg), Tomasz Górny (University of Warsaw), Maryam Haiawi (University of Hamburg), Bernd Koska (Bach-Archiv Leipzig), Albrecht Lobenstein (Bad Langensalza), Birger Petersen (Johannes-Guttenberg University Mainz), Volkhardt Preuss (HfMT), Anna Steppler (University of Cambridge), Menno van Delft (HfMT), Pieter van Dijk (HfMT), Rüdiger Wilhelm (Braunschweig), Peter Wollny (Bach Archive Leipzig), Markus Zepf (Bach Archive Leipzig), Wolfgang Zerer (HfMT).

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The symposium is aimed at experts and interested members of the public.
Registration is required and can be made via eventbrite.

in cooperation with the Bach Archive Leipzig.

Dates at a glance
02.05, 09:00 a.m.
02.05, 13:30
02.05, 19:30
03.05, 09:00 a.m.