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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

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European organ traditions in the Weimar sources
Saturday, 05/03/2025 09:30 - 15:00 HfMT, Fanny Hensel-Saal

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).

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10:00-10:30 Louis Delpech (Hamburg)
French Organ Music in Northern and Central Germany: A Search for Traces

10:30-11:00 Tomasz Górny (Warsaw)
Foreign music sources in Central Germany in the first decades of the 18th Century

11:00-11:30 a.m.
Coffee break

11:30-12:00 Anna Steppler (Cambridge)
Angels in a Lutheran Theology of the Organ: From Luther to Bach

12:00-12:30 Bernd Koska (Leipzig)
The late entries in the anthology P 803

12:30-14:00
Lunch break, then we will continue in the Mendelssohn Hall

from 14:00-14:30 Menno van Delft (Hamburg)
"Aushalten und adouciren" - The clavichord as an ideal instrument for many works in P 801-P 803 (with practical demonstrations)

14:30-15:00 Markus Zepf (Leipzig)
On the editorial history of North and Central German organ works in the context of the "organ movement" up to 1935

The symposium is aimed at specialists and the interested 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, 09:30 a.m.