"As a composer, Bach would have been highly attuned to the effects of a church's acoustics on the performance of music. He was known, for example, to have preferred composing for the Thomaskirche over Leipzig's Nikolaikirche because he deemed it superior for choral music. Supported by an NEH grant and state-of-the-art computational methods, an interdisciplinary […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 04:42PM on June 2, 2020