Bach Archive Leipzig

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The Leipzig Bach Archive is a central research and documentation center on the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach . In addition, it is dedicated to the Bach family and their musical work as a whole.

history

The archive was founded by Werner Neumann on the 200th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death in 1950 . The aim of the new facility was the consolidation and central archiving of all manuscripts and historical documents in connection with the composer and the creation of a Bach research center.

Today the archive is a worldwide center of Bach research. It houses a special scientific library on the subject of Bach. The archive also contains manuscripts and special versions of Bach's works, such as Leonhard Scholz's technical equipment .

In addition to its research assignment, the Bach Archive addresses the public: on the one hand with the Bach Museum , on the other hand with the implementation of international events, above all the annual Leipzig Bach Festival and the International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition .

The Bach Archive in the Leipzig Bose House

The archive is located in the historic Bose House at Leipzig Thomaskirchhof 15/16 across from the Thomaskirche , to which it was relocated in 1985 from its founding place, the Gohliser Schlösschen . The Bach Archive is a member of the Conference of National Cultural Institutions and has been a foundation under civil law since 1998 .

The Bach Museum Leipzig is located in the same building complex. The archive and the museum, especially the entrance area, were expanded and rebuilt in the years 2008 to 2010 according to modern safety criteria for the collections and educational findings and inaugurated on March 20, 2010.

The Bach Archive was included in the Blue Book published in 2001. The Blue Book is a list of nationally important cultural institutions in East Germany and currently includes 23 so-called cultural lighthouses .

Since November 23, 2008 the archive has been an official affiliated institute of the University of Leipzig .

The second, better preserved, picture of the composer by the hand of the painter Elias Gottlob Haußmann has been in the Bach Archive since June 2015 . The painting from 1748 was bequeathed to the archive by the American Bach researcher and collector William H. Scheide .

The Bach Archive is a station on the “ note trail ” through the music city of Leipzig.

Directors

Web links

Commons : Bosehaus Leipzig  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christine Blanken: Organ works from the "Scholz Collection" in relation to Nuremberg instruments . In: From the sound of time. Cast, arrangement and performance practice with Johann Sebastian Bach . Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-7651-0374-8 . Pp. 44-68.
  2. ↑ Bach Archive is affiliated to the University of Leipzig. bach-leipzig.de of November 24, 2008
  3. ↑ Bach returns home in FAZ from May 5, 2015, page 12
  4. ^ Johan Sebastian Bach Institute Göttingen and Bach Archive Leipzig (publisher): The New Bach Edition 1954–2007. A documentation. Bärenreiter, Kassel, Basel, London, New York, Prague 2007, p. 31
  5. ↑ as General Director of the National Research and Memorial Sites Johann Sebastian Bach of the GDR
  6. ↑ part-time

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