Collection Mus. ms. Bach P 801 with 67 pieces for keyboard instruments — Front cover from the anthology Mus. ms. Bach P 801 with 67 pieces for keyboard instruments (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin)

J. S. Bach takes center stage

Name: J. S. Bach takes center stage
Start: 2025-05-02T13:30
End: 2025-05-02T17:30
Location: Hauptkirche St. Katharinen

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European organ traditions in the Weimar sources

Friday, 05/02/2025 13:30 - 17:30 Hauptkirche St. Katharinen

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 brings together scholars and artists to open up new research and interpretation perspectives on this corpus of sources.

With scholarly, artistic and artistic-scholarly contributions from
Christine Blanken (Bach Archive Leipzig), Ingo Bredenbach (Tübingen University of Church Music), Louis Delpech (HfMT), Pieter Dirksen (Culemborg), Tomasz Górny (University of Warsaw), Maryam Haiawi (University of Hamburg), Bernd Koska (Bach Archive 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).

Eintritt frei

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13:30-14:30
Lunch concert with students of the HfMT Hamburg

14:30-15:10 Ingo Bredenbach (Tübingen)
Bach's passaggio organ chorales as a model for his and today's teaching (with practical demonstrations)

15:10-15:50 Pieter van Dijk (Hamburg)
Aspects of North and Central German registration practice (with practical demonstrations)

15:50-16:15
Coffee break

16:15-16:50 Wolfgang Zerer (Hamburg) and Christine Blanken (Leipzig)
Documents for a Weimar performance practice of the Stylus phantasticus (with practical demonstrations)

16:50-17:30 Volkhardt Preuß (Hamburg)
On the teaching methods of Walther and Bach (with practical demonstrations)

The symposium is aimed at specialists and the interested public.

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, 09:30 a.m.