A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Thomasschule

THOMASSCHULE. Since the notice under Leipsic, vol. ii. p. 114b, was compiled, the following changes are to be mentioned. In 1877 the school was removed from its old building in the Thomaskirchhof to a new one near the Plagwitzerstrasse in the western suburb of Leipsic. In 1879 Wilhelm Rust succeeded to the post of Cantor, which he still holds. A minute account of the history of the school and of its condition in the time of Kuhnau and Bach will be found in Spitta's 'Bach,' vol. ii., especially pp. 11–35 and 483–494: compare the documents printed in Anhang B, I–IX and XI.

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