Bach was the director of church music in Leipzig from 1723 until his death in 1750. His duties included conducting choirs at the St. Thomas School and providing four very large churches with music.

290 years ago: Bach becomes cantor of St. Thomas' Church Katrin Walker / gsw 04/26/2013 April 26, 2013. He almost didn't get the job - but on April 22, 1723, Leipzig city officials named the ...

Johann Sebastian Bach was buried in an unmarked grave in 1750. Nearly two centuries later, a doctor identified the composer’s ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

In nearly two centuries since, Leipzig has stayed true to Bach with a dedicated museum/archive and an international music competition.March 21st, Bach’s birthday, saw the finale of this year’s ...

My shoes still bear the marks of sliding through the mud of an archaeological excavation between the Outside Broadcast van and the church door. People come to Leipzig as part of a Bach pilgrimage ...

But when the city’s tourism office uses that title, it is referring to the grand past, when Leipzig nurtured the likes of Johann Sebastian Bach (a choirmaster at St. Thomas Church in the city ...

Just two years before, however, Bach had thrown his hat into the ring for a job at St. Jacobi’s Church in Hamburg, where the practice of selling municipal and church offices was common. After Bach ...