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With the Balthasar Neumann Choir and the Balthasar Neumann Ensemble he founded two world-class organizations with which he has enjoyed countless successes.

The thirteen programmes in the series outline the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages.

J. Balthasar Neumann (1687-1753)

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Johann Balthasar Neumann's Architecture

One of the greatest architects involved in German Baroque art, Johann Balthasar Neumann was active in the towns of Wurzburg and Bamberg, in 18th century Germany.

Celebrated for his Late Baroque architecture, his best known masterpiece is the Wurzburg Residenz (1720-44), a monumental mansion, later made famous by the tromple l'oeil murals and fresco painting of the Rococo artist Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), the leading figure in Venetian painting of the period.

Neumann's second masterpiece is the Basilica of the Fourteen Holy Helpers (Vierzehnheiligen) (1742-74), Bad Staffelstein. Patronized by the influential Schonborn royal family, for whom he designed courtly residences in several locations throughout their principality of Swiss Franconia, Neumann was particularly famous for his magnificent staircases and his abi