Dear Bach Friends,
It is a great pleasure for me to greet you on the occasion of the III. International Festival - Music in the Abbey - Wachock 2013 and I wish this festival every success. A very exciting musical program is being presented in beautiful surroundings and you will have a wonderful opportunity to experience the music of one of the greatest composers in the history of music. What makes Johann Sebastian Bach so special is the remarkable influence he exercised on all subsequent generations of composers and musicians because of the unmatched high standards he established for the art of music. Most important, however, is the fact that his music, written three centuries ago, still sounds fresh in our day and is able to speak to our hearts.
Christoph Wolff
Professor at Harvard University,
Director of the Bach-Archiv Leipzig,
and author of J.S.Bach-the Learned Musician
