page_title: Neue Bachgesellschaft
hierarchical_section_title: Neue Bachgesellschaft
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Leipzig, Bosehaus, Bach-Museum Leipzig ist um eine Sehenswürdigkeit reicher: Unmittelbar gegenüber der Thomaskirche , in der Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) 37 Jahre als Thomaskantor wirkte, öffnete am 21. März 1985, anlässlich des 300.Geburtstages des Kaufmanns und Kunstmäzens Georg Friedrich Bose nach umfangreicher Rekonstruktion als Bach-Gedenkstätte seine Pforten. Die Familien Bach und Bose waren eng befreundet, oft musizierten die Bachs bei ihren Gastgebern. Für die Tochter Boses schrieb der Thomaskontor eine Hochzeitskantete, die seinerzeit im Sommersaal des Bosehauses (siehe 313N) uraufgeführt wurde. In dem Haus, das Zentrum der Bachpflege in der DDR ist, sind auf 170 Quadratmeter Ausstellungsfläche, Dokumente, Handschriften, Musikinstrumente und andere Axponate zu sehen. Sie geben Einblick in das Leben und Wirken Bachs und über seine Zeit. Reporter: Gahlbeck .1985-0325-309N-copyright: ADN-Zentralbild DDR-siehe auch 310-313N
context_page_description: The Neue Bachgesellschaft, or New Bach Society, is an organisation based in Leipzig, Germany, devoted to the music of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach. It was founded in 1900 as the successor to the Bach Gesellschaft, which between 1850 and 1900 produced a complete edition of Bach's works, publishing many pieces for the first time. On completion of these collected works, the original Society dissolved itself.
  The new Society approved three enduring projects:
  the annual edition of a Bach-Jahrbuch
  biannual Bachfeste. The venues of the Bachfest have mainly been in Germany, but the 2012 Festival had an international dimension, being held in Görlitz-Zgorzelec on the German-Polish border.
  the founding of a Bach museum. In 1907 the Society opened the first museum dedicated to Bach at Eisenach, the town where he was born. This Bachhaus is managed by the Bachhaus Eisenach gemeinnützige GmbH, a registered charitable company, with the New Bach Society as its sole associate.
  The Society has not been directly involved in publishing scores in the way that its predecessor was. However, in 1950 it recommended that the second complete edition of Bach's music be undertaken, the Neue Bach-Ausgabe.
context_section_description: The Neue Bachgesellschaft, or New Bach Society, is an organisation based in Leipzig, Germany, devoted to the music of the composer Johann Sebastian Bach.  It was founded in 1900 as the successor to the Bach Gesellschaft, which between 1850 and 1900 produced a complete edition of Bach's works, publishing many pieces for the first time. On completion of these collected works (the Bach-Ausgabe), the original Society dissolved itself.
  The new Society approved three enduring projects: 
  the annual edition of a Bach-Jahrbuch (Bach yearbook)
  biannual (today: annual) Bachfeste (Bach festivals). The venues of the Bachfest have mainly been in Germany, but the 2012 Festival had an international dimension, being held in Görlitz-Zgorzelec on the German-Polish border.
  the founding of a Bach museum. In 1907 the Society opened the first museum dedicated to Bach at Eisenach, the town where he was born. This Bachhaus is managed by the Bachhaus Eisenach gemeinnützige GmbH, a registered charitable company, with the New Bach Society as its sole associate.
  The Society has not been directly involved in publishing scores in the way that its predecessor was.  However, in 1950 it recommended that the second complete edition of Bach's music be undertaken, the Neue Bach-Ausgabe (NBA, in English: New Bach Edition). The project was a joint venture of musicologists in Göttingen, then West Germany, and Leipzig, then East Germany, in order to stress that the common cultural heritage was indivisible.
caption: The Bosehaus in Leipzig, headquarters of the New Bach Society and the Bach-Archiv Leipzig
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