Bach’s new organist is Günther Ramin’s great-grandson
NewsThe Thomaskirche in Leipzig will formally induct its new organist, Johannes Lang, at a special service on Thursday.
Lang, 32, succeeds Ulrich Böhme who held the post for 36 years.
Even more interesting, the church has now let it be known that Lang is the great-grandson of Günther Ramin, organist of the Thomaskirche from 1918 and canot from 1940 to his death in 1956.
Ramin was also conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic chorus from 1935 and played a specially constructed organ at the 1936 Nuremberg rally.
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