From 31 October to 1 November 2025 at the St Thomas Church in Leipzig where Bach was cantor, an exceptional event takes place ...

Sparkling photos & festive fun from Saxony, Germany’s holiday gem Caption: The carousel in the main train station ...

“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 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 ...

Soar over the dynamic city of Leipzig, Germany, in this captivating drone video that reveals its perfect harmony of history, ...

Heavy stones were thrown in a New Year’s Eve attack on one of classical music history’s most important churches. Police have launched an investigation into an act of vandalism at St. Thomas Church in ...

The Leipzig Bach Festival is an annual event. But it has surely never been quite like this before. The festival’s artistic director, Michael Maul, and the president and director, respectively, of the ...

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In this episode of DW Festival Concert with Cristina Burack, we listen to the St. Mathew Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach. It's a piece that tells the story of Christ's crucifixion and death. Every ...

Braxton Boren, an assistant professor of audio technology at American University, is all about sound simulations. His research has included such projects as figuring out how many people heard the ...

MOST of the music on NASA’s Voyager Golden Record, sent into outer space as an audio greeting from Earth, was written by Johann Sebastian Bach. The work of this German 18th-century composer was seen ...