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Orchestra members Vacancies History Tours Concert Archive Recordings Gewandhausorchester Concert Archive Period: Start Date: End Date: World Premieres Extended search: Composer Work Conductor Soloist Instrument Sort results: Year ascending Year descending Conductor A-Z Conductor Z-A Venue A-Z Venue Z-A Search Correct searches & instructions for export/printing All subscription concerts and selected special concerts that the Gewandhaus has promoted with the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig since 1781 can be searched here according to the above characteristics. To make your input easier, spelling suggestions are displayed for some of the boxes. Please note that some composers also appeared as conductors of their works. If you suspect errors in content or have knowledge of performance details that are not reproduced here, we would be pleased if you would direct your comments to the Gewandhausarchive or the Gewandhaus press office . Read more The search results are summarized in ten-year sections and therein again in year steps. The print function prints only those details that you see on the screen! To print all the details of the concert entries, please open all those year sections that you want to print. This procedure is for your safety, so that you do not accidentally print an unmanageable number of pages! The Excel export of the search result works up to a quantity of 500 search results.
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Partners & patrons
Partners & patrons Responsibility and passion An enormous proportion of the active support afforded to the Gewandhausorchester is born of people's enthusiasm and passion for our art and for our endeavours - this is the highest recognition for our work we can receive. We are exceedingly proud to stride into the future alongside such strong partners who share our passion for music and, in the most various of ways, actively share in the responsibility for the artistic life of the Gewandhaus. Contact Contact Christian Fanghänel Leiter Fundraising Phone +49 341 1270 440 Fax +49 341 1270 407 Mail Christian.Fanghaenel noSpam @gewandhaus.de Touristic Partners The Gewandhausorchester works in close cooperation with TMGS, Tourismus Marketing Gesellschaft Sachsen mbH and LTM, Leipzig Tourismus Marketing GmbH. As one of the most internationally renowned orchestras - on tour around the globe, at home in Leipzig - we work together with our tourism partners to ensure that the unique culture of Leipzig and Saxony is brought to the world. We are extremely grateful for this long-standing and successful collaboration. Touristic Partners
at the Opera
Orchestra members Vacancies History Tours Concert Archive Recordings at the Opera A milestone in the opera orchestra’s history is undoubtedly the first performances of Richard Wagner's complete Ring cycle to be staged outside Bayreuth, in 1878. These performances provided the impetus to comprehensively reorganise municipal music-making in Leipzig: in 1881, Leipzig city council legislated that the Gewandhausorchester be obliged to fulfil sacred, symphonic and operatic duties. Read more In the orchestra’s formative years, during which most of its members were not yet professional musicians, only the municipally-employed City Pipers were entitled to perform in churches, theatres and on important secular occasions of the city council. In 1773, however, the City Pipers had no alternative but to enlist the aid of musicians of the concert orchestra (not yet named Gewandhausorchester ), as they were increasingly unable to cope with the growing personnel and technical requirements of the contemporary operatic repertoire. This was a pivotal step that was to fundamentally change the structure of music-making in Leipzig over the subsequent century. Alongside the concert orchestra (founded in 1743), a self-confident and high-quality theatre orchestra was established through its regular opera performances. Due to fee cuts imposed by one theatre director, against which the musicians were determined to campaign, the members of the concert orchestra and those of the theatre orchestra signed a reciprocal agreement in 1786, which regulated the social conditions and workload of all the musicians. The contract was also open to those musicians who performed exclusively as part of the concert orchestra. Thus, the concert and theatre orchestras united to form an independent institution. The founding of the City Theatre in 1817 provided for the introduction of a fixed salary for the 27 musicians of the orchestra for the first time. A permanent ensemble of singers was also established at the theatre, replacing the engagement of travelling theatre troupes. In 1840, the City of Leipzig accorded the 27-member Gewandhaus and Theatre Orchestra official recognition as ‘city orchestra’, although this recognition in its individual form initially only applied to those musicians who undertook church music duties. It was not until 1881 that the city assumed responsibility for the entire orchestra. From 1864, the theatre orchestra was released from its obligation to perform the music betwen the acts of plays, thus refashioning it from a general theatre orchestra into a specialised opera orchestra. With this decision, however, Leipzig's city council lagged behind developments in other cities by a good decade. 1868 saw the inauguration of the New Theatre. The larger stage and auditorium necessitated a larger orchestra, which was increased to a strength of 60 musicians. Only half of them, however, were permanent members of the orchestra; the remainder were lower-paid auxiliary musicians. This imbalance resulted in tension that led to considerable fluctuation in personnel. Nevertheless, both the Gewandhaus and the opera house orchestras benefitted from the numerous overlaps in personnel, as musicians of the concert orchestra had frequently augmented the theatre orchestra, thus guaranteeing the quality of the musical performance. The strain resulting from the exertion of the performances of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle at the New Theatre in 1878 sparked new discussions regarding the status of musicians in the city. In 1881, the city council enacted legislation providing for social security for all musicians of the Gewandhausorchester, while formalising the orchestra’s obligation henceforth to serve in church, in concert and in the opera. Since then, the Gewandhaus, the opera house and St Thomas' Church have shared one and the same orchestra: the Gewandhausorchester.
Gewandhaus Youth Choir
Gewandhaus Choir Gewandhaus Youth Choir Gewandhaus Children´s Choir Preparatory Choir Gewandhaus Choirs & their concerts Gewandhaus Youth Choir Read more In the 2017/18 season, the Choir gave its first full, independent concert in the Gewandhaus and also provided the musical foundation for one programme of the Gewandhaus spielt Kino ( Gewandhaus plays Cinema ) series at the Schaubühne Lindenfels. Subsequent projects have included a programme comprising settings by various composers of texts by Shakespeare, and a concert celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Clara Schumann. The Youth Choir’s performances have now established themselves as an integral element of the Gewandhaus’s choral concert series. The Youth Choir actively contributes to Leipzig’s musical life beyond the Gewandhaus. It appears regularly as guest choir at the Motette performances in St. Thomas’s Church, it has performed at the opening of the Schumann Festival, joined other choirs for the closing gala concert of Leipzig’s Jewish Week, and has even featured onstage in the production of Nackter Wahnsinn – Was ihr wollt at Leipzig’s Central Theatre. Concert tours have taken the Gewandhaus Youth Choir across Germany and to South Tirol, Austria. Highlights of recent seasons include performances with the Gewandhausorchester at the Klassik airleben open-air concerts in Leipzig's Rosental Park, conducted by Riccardo Chailly, as well as repeated appearances at the Leipzig Bachfest. The Choir’s first concert at the world’s leading festival celebrating the music of J.S. Bach took place in 2015 in conjunction with the German-Chinese Choral Academy under the direction of Hermann Max, followed in 2018 by the collaboration with the German-American youth choir and orchestra academy b@ch für uns! This project brought the Choir together with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra under Federico Cortese and thus for the first time beyond Europe's borders, the young adults from both countries spending a week together in Boston und Leipzig respectively. Frank-Steffen Elster, Conductor Contact Contact Registration for audition Rehearsal dates Rehearsal dates Die Proben sind nicht öffentlich und ausschließlich Mitgliedern der Chöre und Teilnehmenden des Vorsingens vorbehalten. GewandhausChor MO/MI: 19:00 - 21:30 Uhr GewandhausJugendchor DI: 18:30 - 20:00 Uhr GewandhausKinderchor MO: Gesamtprobe DI: Registerprobe Sopran DO: Registerprobe Alt FR: Gesamtprobe Nachwuchschor MI: 15:30 - 16:15 Uhr, Gruppe 1 MI: 16:30 - 18:00 Uhr, Gruppe 2
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Legal Party responsible GEWANDHAUS ZU LEIPZIG Owner-operated municipal enterprise of the City of Leipzig General director Prof. Andreas Schulz Augustusplatz 8 Leipzig, Germany 04109 Phone +49 341 1270 330 Fax +49 341 1270 400 Mail gwhdir noSpam @gewandhaus.de Concept and editor staff Press Office & Marketing Department of the Gewandhaus Design pleasant net - Office for Strategically Affecting Attitudes Implementation & CMS clickstorm GmbH Webshop The Webshop is a product of the CTS Eventim AG (Contrescarpe 75 A, Bremen, Germany 28195). CTS Eventim is responsible for the functionality, user guidance and design of the webshop. Texts Claudius Böhm, Dirk Steiner, Stev Wackerhagen, Christian Fanghänel, Ann-Katrin Zimmermann PhD Translation Tom Greenleaves Photos Gert Mothes (Leipzig), Jens Gerber (Leipzig), Nick Putzmann (Leipzig), Christian Rothe (Weimar), Rene Jungnickel (Freiberg), Gewandhaus-Archiv, Stadtgeschichtliches Museum Leipzig Portraits of the musicians : Jens Gerber (Leipzig) Videos and Audio Podcasts Videos: twoSYDEmedia (Leipzig) Podcasts: detektor.fm (Leipzig) Social Media Social Media: Stev Wackerhagen This legal notice also applies to: Facebook: www.facebook.com/gewandhausorchester Twitter: www.twitter.com/gewandhaus Instagram: www.instagram.com/gewandhausorchester Youtube: www.youtube.com/gewandhausleipzig Soundcloud: www.soundcloud.com/gewandhaus-zu-leipzig Tournee-Blog des Gewandhausorchesters: www.blog.gewandhausorchester.de ISSUU: www.issuu.com/gewandhausorchester Exclusion of Liability We have carefully researched all data. In spite of this fact, we cannot assume any liability, in particular for numerical data. The Gewandhaus is not responsible for the content of external homepages. Gewandhaus Events The Gewandhaus concert office is responsible for the correctness of the content of the programme. The Gewandhaus box office is responsible for the correctness of the price statements. Hall rentals The organiser is responsible for the correctness of the concert entries in the programme and its price statements (data on each organiser of the concert entry can be seen in the online programme)
at St. Thomas´ Church
Orchestra members Vacancies History Tours Concert Archive Recordings at St. Thomas´ Church From the beginning of its existence in 1743, the private concert society Leipziger Concert maintained a close relationship with the the boys' choir of St. Thomas’s Church. Gewandhausorchester musicians were frequently enlisted to augment the ensemble performing in the two principal churches of St. Nicolai and St. Thomas, despite church music remaining very much the territory of the privileged Stadtpfeiffer (City Pipers) - the only musicians officially entitled to undertake such duties. Read more In 1789, seven auxiliary positions were created in the church orchestra, to which exclusively Gewandhaus musicians were appointed. This was the first step in the Gewandhausorchester’s gradual assumption of the City Pipers’ duties. Shortly after Mendelssohn took office as Gewandhauskapellmeister, a fundamental and lasting change in the administrative structure of the Gewandhausorchester took place. The core of the orchestra, comprising the 27 musicians entitled to a pension, was appointed the municipal orchestra in September 1840. This originally extended only to the sacred music duties, the musicians being assigned responsibility for "the performance of church music at the morning and afternoon services on Sundays and feast days in the two principal churches of St. Thomas and St. Nicolai". Initially established due simply to the evacuation of the boys of St. Thomas’s Choir during the Second World War - they took refuge in the small town of Grimma to the south-east of Leipzig, travelling into the city only on Saturdays for the Motet in St. Thomas’s Church – the Motette was retained after the Second World War, becoming a tradition of its own. To this day, the Gewandhausorchester and St. Thomas’s Choir perform a cantata by JS Bach in the Motette most Saturday afternoons.
at the Gewandhaus
Orchestra members Vacancies History Tours Concert Archive Recordings at the Gewandhaus In the Gewandhaus, the Gewandhausorchester gives around 70 Große Concerte each season, under the direction of the 21st Gewandhauskapellmeister, Andris Nelsons, and a roster of the world’s finest and most celebrated conductors. The season traditionally comes to a climax with a series of open-air concerts. Performances given by the five Gewandhaus Ensembles and the numerous other chamber music ensembles formed by members of the orchestra complement the Gewandhaus’s symphonic season. Read more The Gewandhaus on Augustusplatz is the third concert hall built in Leipzig for the Gewandhausorchester, inaugurated in 1981. In 1781, the orchestra took up residence in a hall in the trading house of the city’s textile merchants, from which the orchestra took its name. In 1884, the orchestra moved to a new concert hall in the so-called ‘music district’, neighbouring the former Reich Court (today, the Federal Administrative Court). The building was severely damaged in the Second World War and subsequently demolished in the 1960s. An interim home was found in the Congress Hall of Leipzig Zoo from 1946, until the new Gewandhaus on Augustusplatz was opened on 8 October 1981.
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Preparatory Choir
Gewandhaus Choir Gewandhaus Youth Choir Gewandhaus Children´s Choir Preparatory Choir Gewandhaus Choirs & their concerts Preparatory Choir Preparatory Choir In the Gewandhaus Preparatory Choir children of five to nine years of age are able to gain initial experience of performing on stage. They perform in the Children's Choir’s Advent concerts and at the Gewandhaus Open Day. The children receive vocal training and instruction in music theory in preparation for the musical demands of the Children's Choir, to which they will hopefully wish to graduate. The Preparatory Choir is directed by Guido Mattausch. Guido Mattausch Martina Müller Contact Contact Registration for audition Rehearsal dates Rehearsal dates Die Proben sind nicht öffentlich und ausschließlich Mitgliedern der Chöre und Teilnehmenden des Vorsingens vorbehalten. GewandhausChor MO/MI: 19:00 - 21:30 Uhr GewandhausJugendchor DI: 18:30 - 20:00 Uhr GewandhausKinderchor MO: Gesamtprobe DI: Registerprobe Sopran DO: Registerprobe Alt FR: Gesamtprobe Nachwuchschor MI: 15:30 - 16:15 Uhr, Gruppe 1 MI: 16:30 - 18:00 Uhr, Gruppe 2 Information Information Aufnahme Vorsinge-Termin im Gewandhaus (Dauer ca. 10 Minuten) Probenzeiten Gruppe 1, mittwochs von 15.30 bis 16.15 Uhr Gruppe 2, mittwochs von 16.30 bis 18.00 Uhr In den Schulferien finden weder Proben noch Theoriestunden statt. Probenzeiten einmal wöchentlich ab dem 2. Halbjahr der 2. Klasse kleine Gruppen (6 bis 8 Kinder) Termine werden rechtzeitig bekannt gegeben Materialien / Kosten Noten werden gestellt kostenlose Ausbildung Übernahme in den GewandhausKinderchor Überprüfung mittels Vorsingens am Ende des 1. Halbjahres der 4. Klasse bei Frank-Steffen Elster bei entsprechender musikalischer Eignung Übernahme in den Kinderchor