With more than 250 years of music-making to its legacy, it is no surprise that the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra brings with it a real, unshakable sense of history. As chief conductor Riccardo Chailly ...

Composer Niels Gade is as important to the cultural history of Denmark as is the author Hans Christian Andersen. It’s unfortunate that Gade’s music is not as widely recognized beyond his homeland as ...

Fanny Hensel and Kurt Masur are celebrated in Felix Mendelssohn's last residence in Leipzig, just around the corner of Leipzig's famous Gewandhaus. "And where is Fanny?" – that's the question asked by ...

Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Born in Hamburg in 1809 to an affluent Jewish family, he was considered a child prodigy and throughout his ...

Further visits to Britain during the early 1830s cemented Mendelssohn’s relationship with the country which he now considered his second home, but with the European tour now effectively at an end he ...

Brendan Carroll is back from Leipzig and has kindly written us eine kleine Mendelssohn report ... In it, Brendan vividly describes the wonders of the city in its post-Communism state of reconstruction ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In 1825 the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig performed the first complete cycle of ...

(11 February 2022) The year 2022 marks the 175th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's death on 4 November 1847 in Leipzig. At the same time, the Mendelssohn House will celebrate its 25th ...

It’s fitting that a man as industrious as German composer Felix Mendelssohn would write not one, but two pieces of music celebrating the anniversary of the printing press. The invention of modern book ...

My connection with this symphony goes back to my time at the Milan Conservatory, but I never dared to conduct such a masterpiece until 1990, when I was the Music Director at the Musicale Communale in ...