The best-known portrait of German composer Johann Sebastian Bach was welcomed back in his home city in an emotional ceremony Friday after an odyssey sparked when the Nazis came to power. Back in the city of Leipzig thanks to the largesses of a late US millionaire and classical music lover, the 1748 work was unveiled in a packed church, going on public view for the first time in centuries. Whispers gave way to loud applause in the packed St Nicholas Church as a white veil was lifted off the portrait that shows the bewigged composer aged around 60 in a formal pose holding the score to one of his canons. ‘Bach is coming home,’ said a tearful Barbara Scheide, daughter of the late US philanthropist William Scheide who died in November at the age of 100, having bequeathed the painting to the Leipzig Bach Archive. The ceremony

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