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Bach Festival Leipzig

Bach Festival Leipzig

09 - 19 June 2022

Every year in June the city of Leipzig honours its important Thomas Cantor Johann Sebastian Bach with the Bach Festival. It pursues a tradition which Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy had already established.

 

2020 Bach Festival: "BACH - We Are Family"

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the 2020 Leipzig Bachfest has been cancelled. The concept "BACH - We Are Family" will be postponed until 2022. Plenty Bach associations from all over the world will travel to Leipzig to celebrate the composer where he worked most. There they will walk the same paths of the widely ramified Bach family of musicians, who met once a year in the 17th and 18th centuries at a certain location in Thuringia to make music together. The programme will be centered on works by the entire Bach family.

Bach Festival Leipzig

Interior view of the St. Nicholas Church during a Leipzig Bach Festival concert in the Music City, cultural venue, sights
St. Nicholas Church is only one of the Bach Festival's venues. © Gert Mothes

The first Bach Festival took place in Leipzig in 1908. It was organized for the unveiling of the "New Bach Monument".

Selected pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach, who lived and worked in Leipzig from 1723 to his death in 1750 as the St. Thomas choirmaster, are performed.

Around 100 different events take place every year as part of the Leipzig Bach Festival.

Save the date - Upcoming Bach Festivals in Leipzig

08 - 18 June 2023

07 - 16 June 2024

13 - 22 June 2025

View of the illuminated St. Thomas Church in twilight, where the famous St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig perform, and which constitutes one of Leipzig, the Music City's most prominent attractions, cultural venue

St. Thomas Church

The St. Thomas Church is a house of worship, place of music, home of the St. Thomas Choir and final resting place of Johann Sebastian Bach. It is, after the St. Nicholas Church, the second-most central church in Leipzig's city centre.
Blick auf den Eingang zum Gebäude gegenüber der Thomaskirche in dem sich das Bach Museum und Bach Archiv mit Ausstellungen über den Komponisten befinden, Musikstadt Leipzig, Kultureinrichtung, Sehenswürdigkeiten
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Bach Museum

The museum gives you a deep look into the Leipzig-based life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach with its permanent exhibition. Learn about Bach across an exhibition area of 450 m².
Bach stands on a pedestal in the green space on Dittrichring

The old Bach Monument, St. Thomas Church

The world's oldest Bach monument has stood close to the St. Thomas Church since 1843.

Bach Competition

Award winners at the Bach competition with flowers, Leipzig, city of music, concert, events, festivals, culture
The Bach competition honours outstanding musicians. © Gert Mothes

The world's most important Johann Sebastian Bach competition for young interpreters was launched in 1950. Since 1996, it has been taking place every other year in June in three alternating subjects: piano, harpsichord and violin. 

The competition is open to instrumentalists and singers between the ages of 16 and 33.