The Volkshochschule Zürich is Zurich's first provider of cultural and scientific general education for adults. founded in 1920, it offers a wide range of courses from astronomy to philosophy, from psychology to politics and literature, always at an ...
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Forgotten and rediscovered: Mendelssohn in 1829 and the birth of the Bach Renaissance
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Johann Sebastian Bach’s St Matthew Passion is so well known today that it is hard to imagine that it had to be rediscovered some 100 years later. A group of young people led by the twenty-year-old Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy played a decisive role in this, and he thus became a key figure in the Bach revival. This lecture focuses on this rediscovery and its immediate and long-term consequences.
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Thursday, January 21, 2027
19:00 - 20:15 o'clock
Universität Zürich-Zentrum
Rämistr. 71
8006 Zürich
