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Wilhelm-Friedemann-Bach-Haus, Music museum in Halle, Germany.

The Wilhelm Friedemann Bach House is a music museum in Halle housed in a restored Renaissance building that displays musical instruments, documents, and artifacts from several centuries of German music. The spaces feature multiple listening stations where visitors can hear historical compositions and learn about the composers who lived in or visited this city.

Wilhelm Friedemann Bach was organist at the Marktkirche from 1746 to 1764, and from 1762 or 1763 he rented quarters in the Clausbadstube, a bathhouse built in 1554 on the corner plot of today's Große Klausstraße 12. The site belonged to the bathers' guild until the mid-18th century. The Saale-side wing was demolished in 1834 as unsafe, and a second storey was added to the Renaissance wing in 1874.

The Musikstadt Halle exhibition, run by the Händel-Haus foundation since 30 May 2012, gives each of seven composers a room on the first floor: Samuel Scheidt, Georg Friedrich Händel, Johann Sebastian and Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, Carl Loewe and Robert Franz. The 20th century was left out for lack of space. A reconstructed 16th-century Bohlenstube, historical instruments of the 18th and 19th centuries and the Robert Franz Salon, used for events, complete the visit.

The house stands at Große Klausstraße 12, on the corner of the Hallorenring, a short walk from the Marktplatz and the Marktkirche where W. F. Bach was organist. The Musikstadt Halle exhibition occupies the first floor; the Bohlenstube, the Robert Franz salon and a room on the building's history are on the floors below. The building is the seat of the Landesmusikrat Sachsen-Anhalt and of Mitteldeutsche Barockmusik, so some rooms may be in use for meetings.

The building preserves a 16th-century Bohlenstube, a specially insulated room that displays period musical instruments and reveals how music was practiced in private homes centuries ago. This rare feature gives visitors insight into the domestic musical life of earlier times.

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Große Klausstraße 12, 06108 Halle (Saale)
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51.48300,11.96500
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