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Gewandhausorchester, Ingo Metzmacher and Valentino Worlitzsch

Leipzig, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig — Grosser Saal

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About the Event

Experience the beautiful tunes of classical music by Robert Schumann, Richard Strauss, and Max Reger at Leipzig's famous Gewandhaus zu Leipzig in this much‐awaited concert.

Program

  • Max Reger – Vier Tondichtungen nach Arnold Böcklin op. 128
  • Robert Schumann – Konzert für Violoncello und Orchester a‐Moll op. 129
  • Richard Strauss – Also sprach Zarathustra, Tondichtung frei nach Friedrich Nietzsche op. 30
Program is subject to change

Artists

Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig

The Leipzig Gewandhausorchester is a German orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. It is named after the concert hall in which it is based, the Gewandhaus.

The orchestra has a good claim to being the oldest continuing musical performing organization in Europe. In the early 19th century, Felix Mendelssohn was the kapellmeister.

Later principal conductors included Arthur Nikisch, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Bruno Walter, Vaclav Neumann, and from 1970 to 1996 Kurt Masur. In 1998, Herbert Blomstedt took over the post until 2005 and will be succeeded by Riccardo Chailly.

As home to the Gewandhausorchester, the city of Leipzig possesses an orchestra of the highest world renown — one with an extraordinarily illustrious heritage spanning 275 years. In March 1743, sixteen Leipzig merchants founded a concert society, which was to shape musical history. Today, the Gewandhausorchester thrills and inspires music lovers the world over with both its passion for music and its unique, unmistakable sound.
Alongside its 70 symphonic Große Concerte per season, the Gewandhausorchester performs as the orchestra both of the Leipzig Opera — a role it has fulfilled for over 200 years — and of St. Thomas‘s Church, performing the music of JS Bach each week with the celebrated Thomanerchor. In addition, the Orchestra gives approximately 35 concerts per season all around the globe, and is documented on countless recordings. The unique diversity of the Gewandhausorchester‘s activities is a fundamental factor of Leipzig‘s international renown as ‚City of Music‘.

Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher

Ingo Metzmacher (born 10 November 1957 in Hanover) is a German conductor. From 1997 to 2005 he served as director of the Hamburg State Opera. In 2007 he is scheduled to assume the post of Principal Conductor of the Deutsches Symphonie‐Orchester Berlin.

Cello: Valentino Worlitzsch

Address

Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Augustusplatz 8, Leipzig, Germany — Google Maps

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