In Bachs Traukirche in Dornheim

Fröhlich singend sei die Hochzeitsgesellschaft am 17. Oktober 1707 von Arnstadt über die Stoppelfelder – so heißt es – nach Dornheim gestiefelt, wo durch den befreundeten Pfarrer der dortigen Kirche der 22-jährige Johann Sebastian und Maria Barbara Bach, seine Cousine zweiten Grades, getraut wurden. Kein Wunder, dass St. Bartholomäus zu Dornheim mittlerweise zu einer der beliebtesten Traukirchen der Region geworden ist. Wir erleben auf der Pilgerfahrt allda ein charmantes Duett zweier unangefochtener Meisterinnen auf ihrem Instrument!

On 17 October 1707 Johann Sebastian Bach married his second cousin Maria Barbara Bach in the church at Dornheim. Behind him lay his first employment as organist in Arnstadt (from which he had resigned in June 1707) and ahead of him, a new position as organist at the church of St. Blasii in Mühlhausen, which offered him the opportunity for the first time of composing his own cantatas for church services and performing them there. In the intimate setting of the church of Bach's marriage some of his most beautiful works for violin and harpsichord will be performed – a chamber music counterpoint to the magnificent Mass in B minor the day before in Eisenach. And another milestone on the "Pilgrimage to Bach’s country".