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PAN PIPES • SUMMER 2018 • sai-national.org 20 in the Listening Studio they can hear any of his known compositions. Choosing by lyrics, BWV, or title, listeners can locate and enjoy almost endless possibilities. According to a museum guard, to hear all of Bach's music would take four weeks listening all day and night. at's almost 700 hours! Researchers at the Leipzig Bach Archive have made fascinating discoveries: for example, Bach composed almost all of his cantatas during his first five years in the city. (Incidentally, there was a lot to do aer each manuscript was complete. Copyists, including his second wife, Anna Magdalena (1701-1760), had to write out the parts for the choir and musicians, and then Bach himself had to fix any errors in the transcriptions.) In 1999 the Old Bach Archive missing from the Berlin Choral Academy since World War II was found in Kiev and two years later returned to Germany. Will other manuscripts be uncovered in the future? e Treasure Room includes priceless objects: original choral scores that must be rotated periodically to protect them from damage, an intriguing staff liner that had to be dipped in ink before using it to roll lines on paper, the only existing portrait of Bach's father, and one of only two existing portraits of Johann Sebastian from his lifetime—the familiar one painted by Elias Gottlob Haussmann in 1748. Aer several hours (not really enough time at the Bach Museum), there was still one related site nearby not to be missed: the Altes Bach-Denkmal (Old Bach Memorial). It seems fitting that across the green landscape in the public gardens of the Dittrichring is a monument to Felix Mendelssohn whose letters detail his part in making this old Bach statue become a reality. In attendance in 1843 at the unveiling in the courtyard of omaskirche, its former location, was Wilhelm Friedrich Ernst Bach (1759-1845), the only composer grandson of Johann Sebastian Bach. FOR MORE INFORMATION visit www.bachmuseumleipzig.de/en Above left, the Bach Museum. Above right, Bach's Organ and Bench. At right, the New Bach Memorial. A WORLD OF MUSIC