[1][2] Johann Sebastian Bach served as Thomaskantor, director of the choir and church music in Leipzig, from 1723 to 1750.

One or more older choir boys live with the younger ones in each Stube in order to create a hierarchy and didactic relationship.

The choir also sings three times a week in the Thomaskirche, "Motette" every Friday evening at 6 and every Saturday afternoon at 3, service on Sundays at 9 o'clock.

The tour of 2012, the choir's 800th year, presented a program of Alessandro Scarlatti's Exultate Deo, Kyrie and Gloria from Palestrina's Missa sine nomine, Bruckner's motets Vexilla regis and Christus factus est pro nobis, and Bach's motet Jesu, meine Freude.

By the end of the 19th century, the Thomasschule next to the Thomaskirche was demolished and the choir moved to the Hiller street, now the Leipziger "Music Quarter".

But the Nazi government did not succeed in infiltrating their ideology into the choir's repertoire because the then director Ramin concentrated on religious works.

After retiring for health reasons, he was succeeded by Gotthold Schwarz as interim cantor, the latter being officially appointed as the new Thomaskantor in June 2016.

[7] It was presented at the Thomaskirche,[8] and in Merseburg Cathedral[9] among other places in Thuringia, and at the Lutherkirche in Wiesbaden as part of the Rheingau Musik Festival.

[10] Cantors of the Thomanerchor, called Thomaskantor in German, have included (in brackets their time in the office): Awards: State decorations: Eponyms: