Baroque Blog

Peter Fielding devoted nearly seven years of his life to a monumental independent project: Bach: The Animated Series, released on YouTube. In this first part of an exclusive interview with Bach Society Brasil, Fielding reveals how his personal connection to Bach’s work, along with the challenges of a solitary production, shaped a narrative that goes beyond the myth—reaching the human Bach from his earliest and most difficult formative years.

Between the flames of a fire and the altar of his first marriage: discover how the young Bach challenged traditions in Mühlhausen with his manifesto for “well-regulated” music. Watch the animation and hear the audacity of Cantata BWV 131. Published on the Bach Society Brasil blog, a guide to the Baroque written by specialists in the field.

In mid-April 1700, with the end of the harsh winter and the beginning of spring, Johann Sebastian Bach and a friend set off on foot from Ohrdruf towards Lüneburg, a journey of almost 300 kilometers.