The Thomaskirche, barely five minutes’ walk from the Nikolaikirche, had become the most important the second half of the 19th century, it had become Leipzig’s most important venue for the Bach’s sacred works. It was only in the course of the far-reaching neo-Gothic remodelling that the church received a new III/65 organ from the Wilhelm Sauer company in 1887, which was which was increased to III/88 in the course of Karl Straube’s appointment as St. Thomas organist. Both the pneumatic action with numerous playing aids, as well as the disposition were both the organist Carl Piutti and his successor Straube considered it the ideal basis for the for the interpretation of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach and contemporary composers. composers. Closer to the Central German organ sound of the 18th century is the organ built in the “”Bach-Bach Year”” 2000 by Gerald Woehl, Marburg an der Lahn, on the north gallery. The case is modelled on Johann Scheibe’s organ from the University Church in Leipzig, which was tested by Bach in 1717. Leipzig University Church. The stoplist, on the other hand, follows the design Bach’s uncle Johann Christoph Bach for the Georgenkirche in Eisenach, which was built by Georg Christoph Stertzing from Ohrdruf built in 1696-1707.