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Christine Blanken

About Christine Blanken

Dr. Christine Blanken studied Historical and Systematic Musicology and German Language and Literature at the Universities of Göttingen and Vienna. From 1999 to 2005 she was a research assistant at the Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Institut Göttingen; she has worked at the Bach-Archiv Leipzig since 2005, where she is the head of Research Department II.

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In search of Bach in his music library

27.12.2019/in Personalities, Music stories/by Christine Blanken

It is an exciting undertaking to research the intellectual and musical horizons of a great composer. What Bach was interested in, whether it be musical, literary, theological or even the natural sciences, what was in his music cabinet apart from his own compositions – this sometimes arouses greater attention than studying well-known works by the composer for the umpteenth time.

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