Dr. Jonathan Wessler, Kantor at First Lutheran Church in Boston, MA, joins Andy and Sarah during Bach Week to talk about Liturgy in Bach’s Leipzig, including the role of the cantata in the service, how hymn singing worked in those days versus what we’re used to now, the “pulpit service” and preaching and its associated music, and music in the service and how everything except the sermon was sung.
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