"Baroque music as a European bridge-builder", this title succinctly summarises Klaus-Peter Koch's most important research focuses. The focus of his work has always been and still is on topics of German-Eastern European musical interrelations, migration research and music archaeology, as well as Central German Baroque music with composers such as Valentin Haußmann, Georg Friedrich Händel, Reinhard Keiser, Samuel Scheidt and Georg Philipp Telemann. In their essays, 27 musicologists from various nations touch upon the jubilee's themes and follow in his footsteps.
