Saturday, July 19th, 2025
Bach at School: Toccatas 3
Mansfield College, Oxford, Mansfield Road, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Bach Toccata Series: Bach in Context 19 July at 2:30pm Mansfield College Chapel Talk: Bach at School – Professor Henrike Lähnemann Curated by Anhad Arora (harpsichord) With Henrik Persson (viola da gamba) and George Clifford (violin) J S Bach taught at the Thomasschule in Leipzig, where music was not just a practical exercise but part of the Liberal Arts canon, consisting of the ‘trivium’ (grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the ‘quadrivium’ (astronomy, arithmetic, geometry, and music). The final talk explores how Bach’s musical rhetoric is shaped by this academic approach and influences his choice of texts, topics, and genres. Programme: Toccata in D major BWV 912 Violin Sonata in G major BWV 1021 Gamba Sonata in G minor BWV 1029 Toccata in G major BWV 916 This is the final concert in this series! More details of our 25/26 season will be coming soon.