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Dear Madame Federal Government Commissioner,
Up to the present day, the life and work of Johann Sebastian Bach has
not received the appropriate acclaim within the cosmos of great spirits
that frequented the European Cultural City of Weimar.
This fixed star in the world cultural sky lived and worked for ten
years in Weimar. Here, at the Weimar Market Square, principal parts of
his oeuvre were composed: a large part of Bach’s organ works, over 30
cantatas, parts of the „Brandenburg Concertos“ as well as numerous solo
works for violin and harpsichord including the „Chromatic Fantasy and
Fugue“. This is where the two most famous Bach sons, Wilhelm Friedemann
and Carl Philipp Emanuel were born. According to the renowned Bach
researcher Prof. Dr. Christoph Wolff “...after Leipzig, Weimar must be
considered the second most important place in the composer’s life and
work.”
The foundations of his home and the original Renaissance vaulted
cellar have been preserved underground and placed under heritage
protection – but are yet still inaccessible. This is the only at least partially existing and, among all the Bach cities, the only location
proven by records to have been a place where Johann Sebastian Bach
composed and lived that has survived to the present day. In the
former Bach House – as of 1805 part of the Hotel „Zum Erbprinzen“ –
musical celebrities such as Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt, Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler and Niccolo
Paganini, but also the intellectuals Leo Tolstoi, Henrik Ibsen, Gerhart
Hauptmann and Sigmund Freud and the politicians Napoleon Bonaparte, King
Ludwig I. of Bayern, Gustav Stresemann, Konrad Adenauer as well as over
100 additional well-known European figures lodged and/or gathered
here.
