A year after assuming the post as cantor at Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church, Bach announced himself as a musical dramatist of astonishing immediacy and transcendent power.

Johann Sebastian Bach monument at St Thomas church, Leipzig, where he is buried. ... Minutes earlier his motet Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my Joy) echoed around the vaulted hall of St Thomas’s ...

It was in Leipzig that Johann Sebastian, while serving as Cantor of St. Thomas Church, composed his famous St. John Passion in 1723. Bach often rewrote his cantatas himself, using the so-called ...

By Jacquelin Carnegie St Thomas Boys' Choir Leipzig has been a city for 1,000 years, ... St. Thomas Church. ... Bach was an influence on Leipzig’s musical life from 1723 until his death in 1750.

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.

Music lovers can make a pilgrimage to St. Thomas Church — where Bach was a choirmaster — and to the excellent museum ... The epicenter of these events was St. Nicholas Church — Leipzig’s ...