No 193 Bach and Handel – A Summit Meeting

It is something of a tragedy that despite several attempts, the two heavyweights of Baroque music, Bach and Handel, never succeeded in meeting and exchanging in person. But perhaps it is just as well – if they had, the composers may have realised all too clearly how different they were: Bach, the stable kapellmeister and cantor who rarely ever left the region of Central Germany, and Handel, the cosmopolitan, risk-happy opera composer and music entrepreneur in London. Even so, despite the distance, both had some knowledge of the works of the other. Now, some 300 years later, Pomo d’Oro is organising a summit meeting in Leipzig between Bach and Handel.