It was founded by Gustav Classens in 1949 as Bonner Bach-Gemeinschaft (Bonn Bach society), and has its present name officially since 2012.
In 1949, Gustav Classens, the municipal music director of Bonn and conductor of the orchestra (now Beethoven Orchester Bonn, founded the Bonner Bach-Gemeinschaft specifically for the performance of works by Johann Sebastian Bach.
The society was first formed by both choir and orchestra, with the first concerts including Bach's Musical Offering and Christmas Oratorio.
[1] Classens was succeeded by Roland Bader in 1972[1] and Herbert Ermert [de] in 1976,[1] who undertook tours to Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy and 14 times to France.
In April 2000 they sang Bach's St Matthew Passion as part of the project "La Bibbia nella Musica" (The Bible in Music) in Lombardy.
In September 1995, the choir joined the Chor der Staatsphilharmonie Kraków Ein deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms in a memorial concert 50 years after the liberation of Auschwitz concentration camp.