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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Felix Mendelssohn wrote five symphonies but only his Fourth gets consistent attention. His Third gets a nod now and then as does his Fifth. Yet, his First symphony, written when he was only 15 ...

Mendelssohn had received the commission for the composition from the Leipzig City Council in 1839 in order to celebrate the 400th ... Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 in B flat ...

Sir, – 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 house. In mid-January ...