
Leipzig, December 1734: Christmas brings the Bach family together. The first snow has fallen and the children Gottfried and Elisabeth are delighted about the arrival of their older brothers Friedemann and Emanuel. The Thomaskantor has retired to his music room. Anna Magdalena supports her husband, as there are only a few days left and his latest work, the six-part "Christmas Oratorio", must be finished on time. It is awaited with suspicion by the city council and the gentlemen of the consistory, who have long found Bach's waywardness a thorn in their side and fear that, after the premiere of the St. Matthew Passion a few years earlier, the St. Thomas Church will once again be filled with "operatic" music. With the oratorio, Johann Sebastian Bach hopes that he will finally become court composer in Dresden. And, as always, he demands that all members of the family join forces to help him. But differences of opinion are increasingly delaying the completion of Bach's most famous work.

Devid Striesow
Johann Sebastian Bach

Verena Altenberger
Anna Magdalena Bach

Ludwig Simon
Emanuel Bach

Dominic Marcus Singer
Friedemann Bach
German von Beug
Gottfried Bach

Lotta Herzog
Elisabeth Bach

Thorsten Merten
Adrian Stieglitz

Christina Große
Maria Stieglitz
Victor Tahal
Christian Henrici

Christoph Luser
Superintendent

Dominik Weber
Court Music Director Hasse

Luise Aschenbrenner
Sybilla Bose

Planes, Trains, and Christmas Trees
Planes, Trains, and Christmas Trees

White Christmas
White Christmas

Olive, the Other Reindeer
Olive, the Other Reindeer

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Joyeux Noel
Joyeux Noel

My Christmas Guide
My Christmas Guide

Never Been Chris'd
Never Been Chris'd

Christmas on Cherry Lane
Christmas on Cherry Lane

Heaven Down Here
Heaven Down Here

Our Christmas Mural
Our Christmas Mural

Holiday Road
Holiday Road

The Year Without a Santa Claus
The Year Without a Santa Claus