the city offers landmarks such as St. Thomas Church and the Gewandhaus Orchestra. With its mix of historic and modern architecture, including the Monument to the Battle of the Nations and Leipzig ...

This was the last motet to ring out in the Church of St. Thomas to date. The musical city of Leipzig has fallen quiet. The city’s Gewandhaus Orchestra is not playing either, though it had particularly ...

When his colleagues in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra go on summer break, the cellist Matthias Schreiber will be sitting in the orchestra pit of the Bayreuth Festival. Instead of a holiday, a ...

Other visiting European orchestras include the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, which performs two concerts in the final week of the season with Riccardo Chailly (1 & 2 September), and the Gustav ...

As the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra perform at the Proms, novelist Philip Kerr and historian Karen Leeder from the University of Oxford talk about East and West Germany, their differences and ...

BOSTON--The Boston Symphony Orchestra is embarking on a four-city ... scheduled for February 2020 and to Europe (Vienna, Leipzig, Hamburg and Paris) scheduled for May 2022 were canceled because ...

Thalia Petrosian plays the viola in the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, the oldest orchestra in the world, and conducts various classical music projects in Europe. Credit: Jens Gerber Discover ...

He worked with a number of German orchestras before heading – concurrently – the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (1922-28) and the Berlin Philharmonic (1922-45, and 1952-54). He remained in Nazi Germany ...