There are many reasons for visitors to spend time here, too. Music lovers can make a pilgrimage to St. Thomas Church - where Bach was a choirmaster - and to the excellent museum dedicated to him ...

Leipzig, a city rich in ... Known as the home of iconic composers like Bach and Mendelssohn, the city offers landmarks such as St. Thomas Church and the Gewandhaus Orchestra.

St. Thomas Church And St. Thomas School In Leipzig, 1723. Picture: Getty While police are yet to make any arrests, Taddiken suspects that the attack might have been carried out by a man who smashed ...

He almost didn't get the job - but on April 22, 1723, Leipzig city officials named the composer from Eisenach director of St. Thomas Boy Choir. Bach would go on to show his rebellious side at the ...

“The Leipzig St Thomas Church is kind of a holy land for me, especially to experience Bach’s music and soul,” Lang Lang told Classic FM. “And for the Goldberg Variations, you can’t find a better ...

In Leipzig, an east German city of 530,000 where opera singers in stage makeup take lunch breaks at a chain restaurant on the city's largest square, the St. Thomas boys are an institution.

Johann Sebastian Bach served as Cantor of the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, for the major part of his life. His last resting place is in the chancel of the church, marked by a bronze plaque that ...

02.09.2016 13:46 St. Thomas Church in Leipzig (Germany) Finds Private Sponsor for German-American Reformation Project MBA Volker Stößel Media Relations HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management ...

This year marks the 300th anniversary of the first performance in Leipzig of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion, a monumental work first performed under Bach's direction at St Nicholas Church ...

Music lovers can make a pilgrimage to St. Thomas Church — where Bach was a choirmaster... Leipzig: How One City Tore Down the Iron Curtain SF Gate Logo Hearst Newspapers Logo ...