Bach lived and worked in Leipzig much of his life. At the Bach museum, across from the St Thomas church where he was cantor, I focused on some noteworthy quirky history: 1) Bach composed a “coffee cantata” in which a father forces his daughter to choose between marriage and coffee, often performed at a local coffeehouse; 2) Leipzig was the center of electrical research and one of Bach’s colleagues created the famous electric kiss experiment in which a woman stood on a stool charged with static electricity and when someone kissed her, sparks flew; 3) only one painting of Bach exists and his eyes follow you around the room; and 4) Bach died from a botched eye surgery. The annual BachFest begins the day after we leave (don’t fret, we’ll be Bach!).
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