by Fiona Stevens | Aug 22, 2021 | Bach's Quest, Sights
This morning I played at the service in St Trinitatis. After this and before leaving for Gotha I decided to take a quick look at the castle, Schloss Neideck. The first image shows what I saw as I approached the castle – in the background you can see the tower of...
by Fiona Stevens | Aug 21, 2021 | Bach's Quest, Journey
Yesterday my bike and I took a train from Köln to Arnstadt because Ohrdruf doesn’t have a station. That meant cycling to Ohrdruf today in order to actually begin Bach’s Quest with the live stream tonight and onward journey tomorrow. So in a way it was a...
by Fiona Stevens | Aug 21, 2021 | Accommodation, Allgemein, Bach's Quest
I just spent the night in the Hotel zur Goldenen Sonne and discovered on arrival yesterday that it has existed as a pub or inn since the 15th century and was also a place the Bach family held their famous reunions. Sitting at breakfast this morning I wondered whether...
by Fiona Stevens | Jun 17, 2021 | Bach's Quest
Double Bach here! These two books were where I started my Bach’s Quest: Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician by Christoph Wolff, and Music in the Castle of Heaven by John Eliot Gardiner. I was particularly interested in Bach’s early years,...
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