MUSICAL JOURNEY (A) - GERMANY: A Musical Tour of Bach's Homeland
Germany
Bose Family House / Church of St Thomas / Church of St Nicholas, Leipzig / Bach's Birthplace, Eisenach
Landscape, Thuringia
Bach Monument / Bach Church and Views of Arnstadt / Thuringian Landscape
Friedenstein Castle, Gotha
Bach Family House, Eisenach / Thuringian Landscape
Wartburg, Eisenach
Views of the City and Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul, Naumburg
Cathedral of St Peter and St Paul, Naumburg
Views of the City, Erfurt
Date of Production: 2009-05-29
Playing Time: 01:00:01
Catalogue Number: 2.110534 UPC: 0747313553457
UPC: 0747313553457
The Places
This tour of Germany and, in particular, Thuringia, takes us to places associated with Johann Sebastian Bach, to his birthplace, Eisenach, to Arnstadt where he had early employment, and to Leipzig, where he spent the last 27 years of his life. We also see the historic town of Gotha with Schloss Friedenstein and its surviving baroque theatre, Erfurt, and Naumburg, with its Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul.
The Music
The music for this tour of Germany is taken from three keyboard concertos by Bach, originally written for harpsichord but here heard on the piano, an instrument only beginning to develop in Bach's time. Bach's keyboard concertos, many of them arrangements of earlier works for other solo instruments, were written in Leipzig, where, in 1729, Bach took over direction of the University Collegium Musicum. This ensemble of talented amateurs and professionals met on Wednesday afternoons at Gottfried Zimmermann's coffee house or in summer on Friday evenings in his garden outside Leipzig.
