He worked as a church and court organist, served as an orchestral director and for nearly three decades as cantor of the St. Johann Sebastian Bach also enjoyed an excellent reputation during his lifetime. It's such a wonderful feeling to have that kind of organ in the museum." "One would almost like to assume so because this organ is definitely from Johann Sebastian Bach's immediate surroundings. "The big question is whether Bach would have used this instrument," Hansen said. It is the first Thuringian organ owned by the museum.
Bach House Director Hansen discovered it in the inventory of a Bavarian auction house while surfing the Internet and did all he could to bring the rare piece into the museum's collection. The Bach House takes special pride in its newest acquisition, a 1650 Baroque organ from the German state of Thuringia. It was so to speak the keyboard of the Baroque." "It's an instrument that's not so loud that it disturbs the neighbors," the guide explained, "And at 15 kilos, it's also possible to transport it, and Bach had to practice when he was away from home. Bach had a special affinity for the clavichord, Fischer says, because he considered it the best instrument for learning on as well as for private enjoyment. The instrument room's supervisor, Uwe Fischer, gives listeners a taste of Bach's works using organ, harpsichord, clavichord or the spinet. Organizers also recreated Bach's study, bed and living rooms, while an instrument room in the museum allows visitors to dive into the musical world of the 17th century.
Numerous objects, writings, scores and, of course, music instruments ranging from a horn-violin to a glass harmonica have been lovingly collected and arranged. Though Bach never lived in the 15th century home, the exhibition does not suffer. Jörg Hansen.Ī horn-violin, Baroque keyboard and other treasures It stood 100 meters further," admitted the museum's director Dr. "20 years after the opening, people discovered in some tax documents that the house where Bach was actually born had already been torn down. The composer, musician and cantor spent the first ten years of his life in the town of Eisenach.Ĭontrary to what many guests think, though, the world-famous composer was not born in the home they tour. "For many visitors, it's important to follow the exact same path that Johann Sebastian Bach once did."įor more than 100 years, visitors have been listening with perked ears as they are led back in time and into Bach's world. "One of the first exhibition pieces I want to show you is the door from the Thomas School in Leipzig, where Bach served for 27 years as cantor," says museum guide Uwe Fischer during a visit to the Bach House in Eisenach.
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