This vivid work, which had its premiere on Good Friday 1724, brings an experimental spirit to its arresting musical ...

The welcome recipients are school choir boys and girls who’ve just emerged from Leipzig’s St Thomas ... the church, between bites of cake. “You can do anything you like to Bach’s music ...

Johann Sebastian Bach is a true classical music heavyweight. His seminal oeuvre comprises over 1,000 compositions, most of which date back to his time as Kapellmeister at St. Thomas's Church in ...

In 1949, Bach’s purported skeleton was exhumed and later reburied in St. Thomas Church in downtown Leipzig (where the composer once worked as Kapellmeister, or music director). Before this ...

The Passion story—the events leading up to the death of Jesus, as recounted in the four gospels of the New Testament—is ...

Once trapped in communist East Germany, bustling Leipzig is now a city of business and of culture. It’s also a city of great ...