Bach festival

A Bach festival is a music festival held to celebrate the memory of the German composer Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). Various locations throughout the world hold festivals dedicated to Bach. A notable example is the Bachfest Leipzig, held each year in the city of Leipzig, where the composer worked as Thomaskantor for the last 27 years of his life.

Historical festivals

Baldwin Wallace Bach Festival

The Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music at Baldwin Wallace University is home to the BW Bach Festival, the oldest collegiate Bach festival in the nation. The festival was founded in 1932 by Professor Albert Riemenschneider (longtime Director of the College Conservatory) and his wife Selma. The then Baldwin-Wallace Festival Choir and Orchestra presented the first Bach Festival in June 1933 and has continued since then.[1][2] The oldest Bach Festival, The Bethlehem, and Baldwin Wallace performed together for BW's 75th anniversary of the festival.[3][4][5][6]

List of Bach festivals

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rosenberg (April 17, 2011). "B-W Bach Festival serves up inspiration on intimate and grand scales". Cleveland Plain Dealer. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  2. ↑ "Bach Festival History". BW history conservatory. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Oestreich, James R. (May 7, 2007). "Bach's Captains and Foot Soldiers of Musical Industry". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  4. ↑ "Oldest Bach Festivals Combine for Anniversary Celebration". PR newswire. July 2007. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  5. ↑ "The Bach Choir of Bethlehem". The Bach Choir of Bethlehem history. Archived from the original on 1 March 2012. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  6. ↑ Gehman (July 9, 2006). "America's oldest Bach choirs joining to make history [Second Edition]". Morning Call. Allentown, Pennsylvania. Retrieved 20 February 2012.
  7. ↑ Arizona Bach Festival
  8. ↑ Bach Festival of Philadelphia
  9. ↑ Bach Festival Society of Winter Park
  10. ↑ Bachfest Ankara
  11. ↑ Bachfest Bolivia
  12. ↑ Baldwin-Wallace Bach Festival
  13. ↑ Kennedy, Michael and Kennedy, Joyce Bourne (1996) "English Bach Festival". The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Oxford University Press. Retrieved online via Encyclopedia.com 4 October 2016
  14. ↑ Festival Bach de Lausanne
  15. ↑ Frauenkirchen Bachtage Dresden
  16. ↑ Montreal Bach Festival
  17. ↑ The University of Massachusetts Amherst Bach Festival and Symposium
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