Word: eisenach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bach's memorabilia are largely confined to his scores, letters and other documents. There is only one authenticated portrait of the man, and his birthplace on the Lutherstrasse in the hilly Thuringian mining town of Eisenach was destroyed long ago. In Weimar, the cultivated city of Goethe and Schiller, where Bach spent almost a month in jail for the crime of wanting to change jobs, there is only a plaque to mark the spot on which the family home stood. In Cothen, where Bach worked for the music-loving Prince Leopold from 1717 to 1723, producing among other masterworks...
...Today in Eisenach, a benevolent bewigged stone figure beams down from a pedestal, quill in hand and manuscript paper at the ready; beyond it, high on a hill in the distance, sits the Wartburg Castle, where Luther, in disguise, completed his translation of the New Testament while hiding out from Catholic wrath and Wagner set his opera Tannhauser. In Leipzig, a sterner Bach is memorialized outside the Thomaskirche by both a full-length statue and, not far from the church, a bust dedicated by Felix Mendelssohn. Genius pays homage to even greater genius: it was the romantic Mendelssohn, a Christianized...