Bach FAQ 31
In Which Cemetery Is Johann Sebastian Bach Buried?..
Today? Today Johann Sebastian Bach is laid to rest on no cemetery. His last resting-place today is in the St. Thomas Church in Leipzig. Thousands of Bach enthusiast go on a pilgrimage from the whole world to his grave, that is close to the Lord's table and which is decorated always with many flowers..
But there, he hasn't been forever. Shortly after his death they just hastily buried him. Over and out. Just like they forgot his work as quick as lightning in the public (... out of sight, out of mind). Bach was "okay", when he was performing his music, but in the sense of "everybody can be replaced" Bach was, back then in 1750, far from being treated as one of the greatest musicians ever and for that reason going down in history. They forgot his work, and the same was true with him as a person. It was "Sleeping Beauty Bach", so to speak. In between they dug him out and they put him "somewhere else", this time with more integrity ... with more commitment than the first time. It was once the so-called Bach-Gellert Crypt beneath St. Johannis Church. It was destroyed during World War II and subsequently demolished. As a result, Bach was reburied in St. Thomas Church in 1949..
It was not until the so-called Bach Renaissance began, when another famous composer, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, performed Bach’s St. Matthew Passion exactly 100 years after its premiere—almost to the hour, since both performances took place on Good Friday—did people around the world, and musicians anyway, realize the true magnitude of Bach’s genius. And so they did what this man deserved: No place in the entire city of Leipzig is more fitting and worthy of Bach’s legacy than the one where people from all corners of the globe find him today: very close to the altar in St. Thomas Church..
Oh, and that part about the re-enactment exactly 100 years later actually applied to exactly 250 years. Or so. Today we know it was 102 years, but still, it was exactly that. To the day. To the hour. Because they were and remain ... both Good Fridays..
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