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1: Arnstadt to Erfurt

In the first of five 'slow-radio' walks in the footsteps of Bach's 1705 journey to meet Buxtehude in Lubeck, writer Horatio Clare sets out from Arnstadt in the direction of Erfurt.

In 1705 the 20-year-old Johann Sebastian Bach set off from his home in Arnstadt to walk 250 miles to L眉beck, there to meet his hero, the composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude. In the first of five 'slow-radio' walks in which writer Horatio Clare searches for his footsteps - and his ghost - the route takes him from Arnstadt towards Erfurt.

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Tue 19 Dec 2017 19:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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