“Bach at Leipzig,” Itamar Moses’s farce about an 18th-century contest among seven musicians vying for a post in Leipzig left open by the death of Johann Kuhnau – a position eventually filled by Johann ...

The most famous portrait of the iconic German composer Johann Sebastian Bach went on public display for the first time in decades when it was unveiled to enthusiastic applause at the Nikolai Kirche in ...

The super-talky “Bach at Leipzig” is a battle among inferiors fighting for the same high position. In Leipzig, Germany, the greatest organist in the world has died, and musicians are hurrying to ...

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(Reuters) - A portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach that was one of only two known to have been painted in Leipzig during his lifetime will return after more than 265 years to the German city where he ...

Portland’s own Bach Cantata Choir will sing in Leipzig, Germany, as part of the 2024 Leipzig Bach Festival, the preeminent festival centered on the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. The festival ...

It’s not often that one associates rising young playwrights with mastery of the classical form. Not yet 30 years old, Itamar Moses bucks the prevalent trend of elliptical modernism in “Bach at Leipzig ...

LEIPZIG, Germany – Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Wagner, Mahler and Grieg were just some of the many famous residents of the musical city of Leipzig. LEIPZIG, Germany – Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann, ...

ON a recent Saturday night in Connewitz, an emerging neighborhood of artists and students in Leipzig, Germany, the streets were buzzing. At Werk II, a former factory complex, a group of hoodie-clad 20 ...

The nominal premise of "Bach at Leipzig" is that of a competition among Germany's greatest organists, circa 1722, for the coveted post of that city's chief musical director. But if that suggests a ...