Manuel Bärwald

Manuel Bärwald is a musicologist & researcher at Bach-Archiv Leipzig. Manuel Bärwald studied musicology and philosophy at the University of Leipzig from 2003 to 2009 and library and information science at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 2015 to 2017. Since 2009 he has been working as a research assistant and since 2015 as a research assistant at the research library at the Leipzig Bach Archive. In 2014 he received his doctorate with a thesis on "Italian Opera in Leipzig (1744-1756)" at the University of Leipzig. As part of the research project "Johann Sebastian Bachs Thomaner" funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation, he was responsible, among other things, for the musicological indexing and evaluation of biographical sources on the Thomas students from Bach's years of service in Leipzig. He is working on a revised edition of the St. John Passion (versions II and IV) as part of the New Bach Edition. The Leipzig Bach Archive was founded on November 20, 1950, on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach's death. The aim was to bring together the sources and documents on the life and work of the Thomaskantor that were distributed across the city of Leipzig and to preserve them for the future. Manuel Bärwald regularly takes on teaching positions at the musicological institute of the University of Leipzig and at the "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" University of Music and Theater in Leipzig. He is the curator of the multimedia touring exhibition "Klangraum Mitteldeutschland", which was created in 2012/13 on behalf of Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik in Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt and Thüringen eV, and is now in Dresden, Erfurt, Halle, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Stuttgart and Zittau, among others was seen. (adapted from Bach-Archiv Leipzig)