Crisis in Bach archive as boss quits

Crisis in Bach archive as boss quits

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norman lebrecht

November 15, 2019

Franziska Grimm has asked to be relieved of her post as commercial director of Leipzig’s Bach Archive. She had been there for little over a year and wants to pursue other challenges.

That’s all they’re saying.

 

Comments

  • Reader says:

    OMG it’s a crisis? That an employee leaves a job, for any of various reasons? It happens all the time in workplaces all over the world. It’s not a crisis. The BachArchiv will find another director. Maybe “that’s all they’re saying” because it is a personnel matter and none of our business.”

  • John Borstlap says:

    She found a bill for overdue salary together with an angry letter by JS Bach which is still not paid and did not want to be associated with such humiliating failure vis à vis the greatest composer of history.

  • Steven Holloway says:

    I’m not at all sure in what way this constitutes a “crisis”. One may reasonably assume that a replacement will be appointed, and I cannot think there is any shortage of candidates.

  • pallidor says:

    I’m a regular visitor of Bach-Archiv and Bachfest Leipzig. I never came across Mrs Grimm, but to me there is no sign of a crisis as (as far as I know) the main figures of the institution are still the there. BTW: The programme of next years’s Bachfest looks interesting: https://www.facebook.com/bacharchiv/videos/vb.162506233863142/1224331241088042/?type=2&theater

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