REPORTAGE – While two anonymous chaconnes were recently attributed to the famous composer, the festival dedicated to him in Saxony meets with immense success every year.
Leipzig, “die Musikstadt”, fully deserves its nickname. From the moment you set foot in the most populous city in Saxony (north-eastern Germany), the visitor notices that classical music is everywhere… at the station, in the streets, under the numerous covered passages, in cafes, museums, churches, in apartment windows… Nothing amazing: Leipzig saw the birth, performance or teaching of great names in German music such as Felix Mendelssohn, Gustav Mahler, Richard Wagner, Robert and Clara Schumann, Georg Philipp Telemann and especially Johann Sebastian Bach. « Here, on vit du tourisme lié à Bach »smiles a guide from the museum dedicated to the famous musician and composer. A statement that takes on even more meaning each year in June, when the town of 630,000 inhabitants suddenly comes alive around its essential figure on the occasion of Bachfest.
The Bachfest 2026 edition is 212 events in ten days in 36 locations, 3,362 speakers – including 1,617 singers…
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