Theme

5 BACH AS A MEMBER OF THE LIEDER-FREUNDE

Bach’s choral cantatas in the preservation of Old Lutheran hymnody

Theme

9 300 YEARS OF ST. JOHN PASSION

Thema

12 INVENTED BY CAPELLMEISTER BACH

New Information on the Viola pomposa and the Violoncello piccolo

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16 BACH'S LEIPZIG YEARS

News

18 IN A NUTSHELL

Calendar

20 GRASSROOTS WORK INSTEAD OF EVENT CULTURE

Places

23 JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH AND ALTENBURG

NBA Dads

26 BESSELER'S BACH – A NEW READING?

Music Life

31 BETWEEN UTILITY MUSIC AND CULT OBJECT

The 25th Bach Cantata in Theory and Practice Conference at the Evangelische Akademie Baden

Music Life

34 VARIETY WITH SURPRISES

The Knechtsteden Early Music Festival

Pioneers

38 NEW ACOUSTIC RESONANCES IN FERRUCCIO BUSONI’S BACH INTERPRETATIONS

Calendar

41 NATURAL DECLAMATION AND FLOWING SINGING

Reinhard Keiser on his 350th birthday

Discussion

44 WHERE DID BACH HIDE THE PYTHAGOREAN COMMA?

A (brief) discussion of Bach’s harpsichord tuning

Library

47 THE END OF A JOURNEY

Four copies of the English Suites for the Bach Archive

50 IMPRINT