Dero berühmbter Chor

The Thomaskantors of the 17th and 18th centuries were among the most important composers of their time. But what attracted these outstanding artists – above all the Köthen Kapellmeister Johann Sebastian Bach – to a municipal boys’ school and spurred them on to continuously create new repertoire at the highest level, which was to characterise Protestant church music throughout Germany? What made the school, whose “famous choir” was already praised as unique by Heinrich Schütz in 1648 and which was considered the epitome of a “true musical conservatory” at the end of the 18th century, so radiant? Michael Maul explores the development of the Thomasschule phenomenon on the basis of extensive source studies and numerous new documentary finds. And in vivid portraits, he shows how the individual St Thomas’ cantors, as well as art-loving rectors and patrons, steadily continued the unprecedented musical success story of the institution – and thus laid the foundation for the unbroken tradition of the St Thomas’ Choir to this day.