OK, back to Germany. I wanted to stop over in Leipzig so here are some photos from a Sunday when everything is closed.
The church behind his statue is where he used to be the conductor. Here is what a description inside the church stated. “From 1723 until 1750, Johann Sebastian Bach was the highest ranking musician in Leipzig as Director Musices Lipsiensis and cantor at St. Thomas. Then, as now, the cantor at St. Thomas was an employee of the city. As part of his official duties, Bach was responsible for the musical education of the boys at St. Thomas School and for the music in services at the two main churches – St. Thomas and St. Nicholas – as well as the New Church (later called St. Matthew) and St. Peter’s Church. With his second wife Anna Magdalena Bach, née Wilcke, Bach lived in the old St. Thomas School on the churchyard. He went to this church for confession and to receive Holy Communion. During his first years in office in Leipzig, Bach created new cantatas on a weekly basis – about 150 compositions in total. 30 more can be traced to later times. And these numbers do not include Bach’s Passions, cantatas on the annual occasion of welcoming a new city council or numerous compositions for special events. Bach also presented the works of other composers in the Leipzig churches as well as his own reworkings of some of them. The first performances of the St. Matthew Passion (1727) and the lost St. Mark Passion (1731) took place at St. Thomas Church, the St. John Passion (1724) and the Christmas Oratorio (1734/35) were premiered at St. Nicholas. The interior of St. Thomas Church as it existed in Bach’s times has been removed almost entirely. This includes the two organs. The oldest parts of the large organ had been made in 1511. The smaller organ even dated back to 1489. Still remaining from Bach’s times are several pieces of Communion equipment, the portraits of superintendents in the choir, as well as the Löbelt cross and the baptismal font.St. Thomas Church From an island in Thailand? Or is it cold in Japan? This kid had a VR headset on to control his helicopter.Spaghetti Aglio olio. It was pretty goodThis restaurant seems to have pretty high standards Something to learn when in Europe This little three squiggly mark above the door is the same I saw in the Pictish Tablet in the Highlands of Scotland and also in Ireland and also in Japan.It seems his university was in this town.
