Leipzig-based Bach researcher Peter Wollny identifies two organ compositions as the work of the 18-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach · First performance in 320 years to be livestreamed from St Thomas’ ...

The nave of St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, where Bach worked for 27 years, and where he compsoed some of the world's most enduring works of sacred music. Trades run in some families like water from leaky ...

On Good Friday in 1727, the congregation at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig faced a long haul. As well as hymns, a motet and a sermon, the solemn vespers would include a gigantic two-part oratorio ...

SIMON: Peter Wollny directs the Bach Archive in Leipzig, Germany. And the quote-unquote new pieces are chaconnes - Baroque-era compositions with melodic variations atop repeated bass lines. Wollny has ...

Both written for the organ, they are believed to date from the great composer's very early career, when he worked as a organ ...

Maundy Thursday is the day on the liturgical calendar when the church celebrates the institution of the Eucharist and the final lead-up to Easter. J. S. Bach began his St. John Passion just afterward, ...

Join Bach Collegium San Diego for J.S. Bach’s vivid musical account of Christ's passion, which combines a striking drama and devotion forming a pinnacle of the vocal works composed for the Leipzig ...

Leipzig-based Bach researcher Peter Wollny identifies two organ compositions as the work of the 18-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach · First performance in 320 years to be livestreamed from St Thomas’ ...

Two previously unknown organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach have been discovered by the Bach Archive in Leipzig — just in time for the research institute's 75th anniversary. And there are even more ...

As of 17 November, the index of Bach's works (BWV) is richer by two numbers: Leipzig Bach Archive director Peter Wollny has succeeded in identifying two previously anonymous organ works as composed by ...