Music Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra review: A palpable connection to Mendelssohn and Beethoven Published: Feb. 26, 2010, 10:14 a.m.

Mendelssohn vastly expanded the orchestra’s repertoire to include not only the latest masterpieces hot off the press (some of them his own), but the great works of yesteryear from Bach onwards. He ...

Orchestrating a lasting bond: Boston-Leipzig connection transcends language BSO music director Andris Nelsons is helping to write the German city’s next musical chapter through an auspicious ...

Marking the 400th anniversary of the printing press, Mendelssohn composed the Festgesang (Gutenberg Cantata) for male chorus, brass orchestra and timpani, which premiered in Leipzig in 1840.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig enjoy a close partnership, established in 2018: the GHO-BSO Alliance, initiated by Andris Nelsons, music director of both orchestras.

When it comes to symphonies, very few composers have all of their symphonic utterances consistently performed. Of course, Beethoven sits atop the heap even if his First, Second, Fourth, and Eighth ...

Dining with MendelssohnSir, – Thank you for Derek Scally’s atmospheric piece on Felix Mendelssohn and his house (An Irishman’s Diary, November 20th). There is a small Irish connection to the ...

From Mendelssohn’s Elijah to his Scottish Symphony, here are some of the early Romantic composer’s most glorious pieces of music.

Inspired by seeing the ruins and moors of Scotland, and especially Mary Queen of Scots’s Holyrood Castle on a walking tour, Mendelssohn created his aptly named Third Symphony. Its pages are ...

Mendelssohn later added a few more movements to the work. The second version of the work was first heard on December 3, 1840 in Leipzig.

Local Nazi newspapers today joined in demanding removal of the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdi statue from the Municipal Hall. It was suggested the statue of the famous composer be presented to the ...