Bach at School: Toccatas 3

🎼 Bach Toccata Series: Bach in Context
🗓 19 July at 2:30pm
📍 Mansfield College Chapel
🎙 Talk: Bach at School – Professor Henrike Lähnemann
🎶 Curated by Anhad Arora (harpsichord)
With Henrik Persson (viola da gamba) and George Clifford (violin)

J S Bach taught at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where music was not just a practical exercise but part of the Liberal Arts canon, consisting of the ‘trivium’ (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the ‘quadrivium’ (astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, and music). The final talk explores how Bach’s musical rhetoric is shaped by this academic approach and influences his choice of texts, topics, and genres.

🎵 Programme:
Toccata in D major BWV 912
Violin Sonata in G major BWV 1021
Gamba Sonata in G minor BWV 1029
Toccata in G major BWV 916

📅 This is the final concert in this series! More details of our 25/26 season will be coming soon.

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