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    33917°N 12.37250°E / 51.33917; 12.37250 The St. Thomas Church (German: Thomaskirche) is a Lutheran church in Leipzig, Germany, located at the western part of...
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    St. Thomas School, Leipzig (German: Thomasschule zu Leipzig; Latin: Schola Thomana Lipsiensis) is a co-educational and public boarding school in Leipzig...
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  • Thomas Church, Leipzig, workplace of J.S. Bach St. Thomas Church, Palayoor St. Thomas Church Mylacombu St. Thomas Cathedral, Mumbai St. Thomas Church...
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    The Thomanerchor (English: St. Thomas Choir of Leipzig) is a boys' choir in Leipzig, Germany. The choir was founded in 1212. The choir comprises about...
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    Paulinerkirche was a church on the Augustusplatz in Leipzig. It was built in 1231 as the Klosterkirche St. Pauli for the Dominican monastery in Leipzig. From the...
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    Johann Sebastian Bach (category Burials at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig)
    employed as Thomaskantor (cantor at St Thomas's) in Leipzig. There he composed music for the principal Lutheran churches of the city, and for its university's...
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    Leipzig, from 1723 until his death in 1750, conducting the Thomanerchor (St. Thomas Church Choir), at the St. Thomas Church, the St. Nicholas Church and...
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    St. Matthew was a church in the old town of Leipzig. During its history it had several names and functions. As a church of the Franciscan order, built...
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    (Cantor at St. Thomas) is the common name for the musical director of the Thomanerchor, now an internationally known boys' choir founded in Leipzig in 1212...
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    Friedrich Schneider (category Leipzig University alumni)
    1805, he commenced studies at the University of Leipzig. He became an organist at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig in 1812, and was named conductor in Dessau in...
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    Old St. Peter's Church (German: Alte Peterskirche) is a Lutheran parish and church in the old town of Leipzig, Germany. The present church building, in...
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  • leuchtet der Morgenstern, BWV 1, at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. March 30 – Repeat performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's St John Passion (BWV 245, BC D 2b...
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    concert is traditionally a performance of Bach's Mass in B minor in the St. Thomas Church. 2004: "Bach and the romantic era" 2005: "Bach and the Future" 2006:...
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    to perform in the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, where Bach had worked for 23 years. Zhu was the first pianist to perform in this church. The DVD and CD of...
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  • begins. 1479 - Printing press in operation. 1485 - Treaty of Leipzig. 1496 - St. Thomas Church consecrated. 1519 - June: Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt...
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    Wintergartenhochhaus, the St. Thomas Church, the St. Nicholas Church, the New Town Hall, the Old Town Hall at the Markt square, the Leipzig University. In the...
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    pastiche on either 31 April 1747 (at the St. Nicholas Church, Leipzig) or 12 April 1748 (at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig). Of all the pastiches, this one was...
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  • revives his St Matthew Passion BWV 244 (BC D 3b) with some further revisions of instrumentation and voicing at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig: the work is...
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    made of the Brockes Passion HWV 48 of George Frideric Handel at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Elias Gottlob Haussmann completes his famous portrait of Johann...
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    founders of the society were Moritz Hauptmann, cantor of the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, (and thus a successor of Bach); Otto Jahn, author of a noted...
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    composed it in Leipzig and first performed it on 1 April 1725. The first version of the work was completed as a cantata for Easter Sunday in Leipzig on 1 April...
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  • Sebastian Bach revives his St Mark Passion with some textual changes and two new arias inserted at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Castrato Giovanni Carestini...
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    Carl Seffner (category Artists from Leipzig)
    his statue of Johann Sebastian Bach at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Born in 1861, Seffner studied at the Leipzig Academy of Art from 1877 to 1883. After...
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  • new appointment (from May 5) as cantor and musical director of St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Other candidates for the post included Georg Friedrich Kauffmann...
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  • March 23 Johann Sebastian Bach premieres his St Mark Passion BWV 247 (BC D 4) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. William Babell – Prelude in F major, IWB 10...
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  • separately for two choirs and orchestras (with two continuo parts) at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. May 12 – In celebration of the marriage of Frederick, Prince...
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  • statue of Felix Mendelssohn, by Werner Stein, is dedicated at St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Removed by the Nazis in the 1930s, it is re-dedicated in 2008...
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    soprano Willabelle Underwood. Johann Sebastian Bach is reburied in St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. Malcolm Sargent becomes chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra...
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    Gloria in excelsis Deo, BWV 191 (category Church cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach)
    Alfred (17 December 2005). Adventsmotette (PDF) (in German). St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 October 2007. Retrieved...
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    In 1723, Bach left Köthen to accept a post as cantor at the St. Thomas Church, Leipzig, thus leaving his post in the municipal orchestra free. Abel succeeded...
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