Ulrich Leisinger in conversation with Peter Wollny, Director of the Bach Archives Leipzig
Musicians of the Orquesta Iberacademy Medellín
Throughout many centuries the most recently composed music was the measure of all things for audiences and composers. A retrospective view served only to amuse or cringe at the inability of the forefathers. Right at the beginning of his time in Vienna, things changed abruptly for Mozart when he encountered a number of connoisseurs and lovers of Early Music. Mozart did not merely imitate the music of the Baroque era, he subsequently integrated elements of it into his own style of music.
Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the International Mozarteum Foundation, and Peter Wollny, director of the Bach Archives in Leipzig, have known each other for over 30 years since their time together at Harvard University and in Leipzig. Through their work on the New Bach Edition and the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Edition they are also predestined to discuss the ever relevant topic “How indeed can Early Music be discovered and conveyed?” taking the example of Monteverdi in Salzburg, Bach and Mozart.
