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Ziegler and Bach – Workshop

Workshop on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the collaboration between Christiane Mariane von Ziegler and Johann Sebastian Bach and the performance of BWV 128 with the team from the new edition of the works of Ziegler, https://www.ziegler-edition.de

University of Oxford, 7–8 May 2025 . Full programme

Everybody is welcome to attend but places are limited. If you are interested in participating, please contact Henrike Lähnemann.

Wednesday, 7 May

St Edmund Hall, Old Library: Female Enlightenment

10 am Welcome by Henrike Lähnemann

  • Astrid Dröse/Marisa Irawan: CMZ – an Early Feminist of the Enlightenment
  • Oliver Bach: Leipzig as a Centre of Enlightenment Thought: Protagonists, Ideas, Institutions

11.30am Inga Mai Groote: CMZ as Librettist for Bach – Towards an Understanding of BWV 128

12.30 Lunch in St Edmund Hall 

Bodleian Library / Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford 

2.30–4pm/4.30–5.30pm Open rehearsal with John Butt in the Sheldonian Theatre 

3–4pm/4–5pm Print Workshop with Richard Lawrence in the Schola Musicae in groups

6.15pm: Manuscript viewing in the Weston Library

6.30pm: Pre-concert talk with John Butt and Robert Quinney

7.30pm: Concert: Bach 1725 with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / New College choir

8 May

Taylor Institution Library / Ashmolean Museum

9:30am Introduction by Henrike Lähnemann in Room 2 of the Taylorian

10am Guided tour of the Ashmolean

10.30/11.45am: Session in the Print Room in the Ashmolean with Caroline Palmer & Jim Harris 
10.30/11.45am: Group work on creative translations of texts by Christiana Mariana von Ziegler

1–2pm: Presentation of the groups in the Main Hall of the Taylorian

3pm Guided tour of Oxford

St Edmund Hall 

5:15pm: Podium on Women of the Hall

7pm: Dinner in St Edmund Hall

8.30pm: Rehearsal for the Compline

9.30pm: Compline in the Crypt of St Peter-in-the-East with the St Edmund Consort 

Delegation

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