Bach choir

Bach Choir , also Bach Choir , or Bachverein is the name of a choir that focuses the musical work is Johann Sebastian Bach's committed and performs with the performance of its great sacred choral works to the public.

The first Bach choirs were founded in the course of the Bach renaissance at the beginning of the 19th century, which reached its first climax with the performance of the St. Matthew Passion by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in 1829. The Leipzig Bach Society was founded in 1850 . In the period that followed, numerous Bach choirs emerged in the big cities. Today Bach choirs can be found all over the world.

See also

• List of Bach choirs
• Bach Association (disambiguation)
• Bach Society (disambiguation)