Riccardo Chailly upholds tradition with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra.With more than 250 years of music-making to its legacy, it is no surprise that the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra brings with ...

Just as it felt as though he might be losing his professional sanity, an offer arrived from Leipzig to take over the directorship of the Leipzig Gewandhaus. He eagerly accepted and never looked back.

Hear the pure, anything-is-possible optimism of a brilliant 16-year-old composer in Mendelssohn’s Octet, which seems made for this moment.

11/06/2017 November 6, 2017. Fanny Hensel and Kurt Masur are celebrated in Felix Mendelssohn's last residence in Leipzig, just around the corner of Leipzig's famous Gewandhaus.

The rarely heard "Lobgesang" by Mendelssohn will be performed this week by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, the Seattle Symphony Chorale and three guest singers under the baton of SSO music ...

Mendelssohn conducted Gade’s First Symphony in Leipzig where it was received with enthusiasm. Gade obtained a fellowship from the Danish government, moved to Leipzig and soon befriended Mendelssohn.

First Symphony in B flat major, op. 38 Robert Schumann composed his first symphony in January 1841 in Leipzig, sketching it out in just four days. The composer was under a lot of pressure at that ...

As part of their pioneering five-year-old BSO-GHO Alliance, the two orchestras will explore the Russian composer's 15 symphonies and six concertos with a third Festival Orchestra composed from the ...

Though most Americans know Nelsons primarily from his perch at Symphony Hall, the conductor has a second musical home in Leipzig for part of the year — he has led the city’s vaunted Gewandhaus ...

Felix Mendelssohn was an early Romantic composer from Germany, born in February 1809. He wrote some of his most successful work as a teen, and from the ‘Scottish’ Symphony to Elijah, his music broke ...