From 18 to 25 October, the 39th Sarrebourg International Music Festival will bring the Chemins du Baroque adventure in the New World to a definitive close. In March 2026, the transfer to Asunción of the music collection assembled in Saint-Ulrich had already given concrete form to the passing on of this legacy. This final edition will focus in particular on the composer Domenico Zipoli, born in Tuscany in 1688 and who died in Córdoba, Argentina, three hundred years ago, in 1726. 
By J.-E. Eichenlaub
Les Chemins du Baroque dans le Nouveau Monde (Baroque Pathways in the New World) is the adventure of a lifetime: that of Alain Pacquier, who co-founded the project with his friend Lionel Lissot and founded the Sarrebourg International Music Festival, on the Franco-German border. Begun in 1985 with a journey to North America, it subsequently unfolded between France and Latin America, where the Paths worked to rediscover and pass on the Baroque repertoires of the New World through the training of musicians, the restoration of historic organs, musicological research, and recordings. Forty-one years later, following the departure from the Saint-Ulrich convent (Dolving, Moselle) and the transfer of the music collection to Paraguay, the Sarrebourg “Ultimo Festival” will definitively bring this story to a close on October 25.
From the Paths of the Baroque to the “Caminos del Barroco”
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