Bach Akademie Australia's COLLEGIUM MUSI...
Event Date: 12/06/2026, 02:30 pm
Sydney | June 12 | A MUSICAL PASTICHE OF 18TH CENTURY COFFEE HOUSE CULTURE
1702 Leipzig. Bach’s great friend and colleague George Phillip Telemann has just founded The Collegium Musicum, an 18 th century ‘student musical society’, that gives weekly public performances in the old university town. Fast forward to 1729, and the Musicum is now run by Bach, who expands the society’s influence to the artistic melting pots of Leipzig’s coffee houses. Here many of Bach’s most famous works are written and adapted. Artistic Director Madeleine Easton said, the Collegium Musicum was an extraordinary institution fostering the talents of both composers and performers alike. The confluence of Europe’s best musicians with composers of the time has provided a legacy of music that has lasted throughout the centuries and that we celebrate here.This program acknowledges the founder of the Collegium, Telemann, with his ‘Tafelmusick’ his successor Fasch with his Sinfonia in G. As Bach’s great inspiration, Vivaldi is acknowledged with his famous variations on ‘La Folia’, and finally we celebrate the many great concerti written by J.S. Bach for his students at the Collegium including his famous Concerto in D minor for two violins.”
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Mosman Art Gallery,
1 Art Gallery Way, Mosman NSW 2088 New South Wales,2088
Mosman Art Gallery,
1 Art Gallery Way, Mosman NSW 2088 New South Wales,2088


