11/11/2022
+++ BREAKING NEWS +++
Kick-off for »Forschungsportal BACH« (Research Portal BACH)! Over a period of 25 years, we will digitize and provide access to all available archival sources on the entire Bach family of musicians for the first time.
From progenitor Veit Bach to the last composing grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach; from the 16th to the early 19th century: Starting in January 2023, all surviving documents of the most influential musical dynasty in music history will be made available in an innovative digital portal. Letters, employment certificates, salary notes, discussions with contemporaries: For the first time in the history of Bach research, the materials scattered in libraries, archives and private collections are collected in their entirety, digitally recorded, indexed according to scientific aspects, commented on and bundled in an online portal.
»Forschungsportal BACH« offers scientists and interested members of the public a unique collection of sources on the cultural and social history of the various centuries, for example on the living conditions of town pipers in the 17th and 18th centuries up to aesthetic discourses from the Age of Enlightenment…
This project of the Saxon Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Leipzig (Sächsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig) will be based at the Leipzig Bach Archive. It is part of the »Academies’ Programme«, which is currently the largest long-term research programme in the humanities and cultural studies in the Federal Republic of Germany and is supported by the Federal Government and the federal states and coordinated by the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities.
Bach research in new dimensions!
photo: Brigitte Braun
