April 23-24, 2022: Zimmermann’s Coffee House, with Anton Nel

Zimmermann’s Coffee House was one of several fine establishments in Leipzig, Germany, offering weekly secular music entertainment. During the residency of the Leipzig Collegium Musicum at Zimmerman’s, Johann Sebastian Bach was its director. It was, effectively, Bach’s secular gig that supplemented his sacred music duties at St. Thomas and St. Nicolai.

Although music from many composers was featured at the Coffee House, we will focus exclusively on J. S. Bach’s secular music works, most notably, his famous “Coffee Cantata”.