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Composition during the "Baroque" period was characterized by enormous artistic diversity, virtuoso ornamentation, and deep emotional spirituality – in hardly any region and era is this more evident than in Thuringia in the 17th and 18th centuries, which boasted a cornucopia of musical excellence. Thuringian Baroque music developed in a landscape rich in cultural influences, ecclesiastical power, and a strong bourgeois spirit. The "small states" provided the ideal stage for musical exchange: the ducal courts and royal residences, above all Gotha, Eisenach, and Weimar, were in lively competition with one another; they pushed their court composers to ever greater heights and demanded avant-garde excellence from them.

Baroque Impulse with Midori Seiler – Bach Festival Eisenach

St. George's Church Eisenach

Baroque Impulse with Midori Seiler

Ekhof Theater Gotha

With this concert in the Elbphilharmonie, the Köthen Bach Collective is celebrating a premiere: for the first time, the festival orchestra of the Köthen Bach Festival is performing outside the small Bach town in Saxony-Anhalt. The ensemble, founded in 2016, regularly comes together for the Köthen Festival from all over the world. An ensemble of the highest quality that has also attracted international attention since its first CD release last year. The direction is in the hands of two exceptional violinists: Midori Seiler, professor of baroque violin at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, and Mayumi Hirasaki, professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. Around them, a cross-generational collective of international specialists has developed that can hardly be surpassed in its joy of playing and perfection – inspired by the historical place where the majority of Bach’s ensemble repertoire was created.

Conductor, Violinist

Midori Seiler

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Oct 31, 2025

Baroque Impulse with Midori Seiler – Bach Festival Eisenach ·

Oct 11, 2025

Baroque Impulse with Midori Seiler · Thüringen Philharmonie Gotha-Eisenach

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