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Bach Museum Leipzig

Thomaskirchhof 15/16
04109 Leipzig

Phone +49.341.9137200
Fax +49.341.9137205

Web: www.bach-leipzig.de
E-Mail: museum@bach-leipzig.de

Opening hours

The Bach Museum remains closed from January 1, 2008 until about March 20, 2009 due to remodelling and renovation. However, there is an interim exhibition in the Thomaskirchhof 13/14, open daily from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

 

The Bach Museum is devoted to the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig. For 27 years the famous Thomaskantor (artistic director of the St. Thomas Church) shaped the musical life of the city. Here he composed many of his most significant works, including St. Matthew's Passion, the Art of the Fugue, and the Mass in B Minor.

Precious manuscripts, music supplies, and works of art provide insight into the world of Johann Sebastian Bach's life and work. The listening room and free audio-guides make the exhibition resonate. Special exhibitions, concerts, diverse pedagogical museum activities, including foreign-language guided tours, children's programs and movies, add to what the museum has to offer.

The Bach Museum belongs to the Foundation Bach-Archive Leipzig, the  internationally well-known center for Bach research. In addition to the state library of Berlin, the Bach-Archive maintains the second-largest collection in the world of original writings by Bach and possesses a unique scientific special library.

Germany possesses musical traditions and legacies of extraordinary value: Handel, Schuetz and Bach, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, and Wagner - to mention only a few names - are composers who are known and treasured throughout the world. Their work has played a significant role in shaping a unique musical landscape.

Numerous orchestras, choruses, ensembles, renowned music festivals and series, music houses with museums, public archives and libraries, but also private collections preserve their musical heritage.

It is necessary to revitalize this inestimable fund again and again and to develop it for the present. At the same time, an important role befits the houses combined in the consortium of music museums of Germany. In them we encounter the work of the musicians and composers who have extraordinarily enriched the cultural nation of Germany. However, beyond the individual portrait, beyond the procurement of individual oeuvres, the music museums also contribute overall to the maintenance of musical tradition. The present brochure underscores this aspect of the synoptic presentation and invites the reader on a journey into the musical history of Germany. I hope this tour guide will be actively used and receive a large response.

Bernd Neumann, Member of the Lower House of the German Parliament
Minister of State with the Federal Chancellor
Commissioner of the Federal Government for Culture and Media

Quoted from: Foreword to the brochure "Music Museums in Germany", 2007.