Welcome to Bach Network

Welcome to the website of Bach Network! Bach Network promotes the study of the life, times and music of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750). Bach Network connects people and stimulates ideas through the written word, in our peer-reviewed, open access publications, Discussing Bach and Understanding Bach, and through personal contact. Our most important meeting is the biennial Bach Network Dialogue Meeting, held at Madingley Hall, Cambridge. Our twelfth dialogue meeting will be held from Monday 6 July until Thursday 9 July 2026, with the possibility of staying two extra nights: Sunday 5 and Thursday 9 July. We also have a regular presence at the Leipzig Bachfest, where our next presentation will be on 21 June 2025, and at the Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, to be held in Birmingham 16–19 July 2025.

Artists, scientists, Bach scholars and performers, and indeed anybody who is seriously interested in Bach’s music is welcome to join us. The central aim of the network is to facilitate contacts that will encourage thought about Bach and his music: thought that may be quite different from the established terms of academic discourse.

You can keep up to date with our activities through our Facebook page and news notifications circulated by email once or twice per year.