On Monday, November 3, at 7:30pm, the world-renowned Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra will kick-off a concert tour of the United States in Houston, which is an official sister city of Leipzig, Germany.

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 ...

The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra was founded in Bach’s home city, and its charter members were musicians often in his employ. The orchestra premiered Beethoven’s “Emperor Concerto” and ...

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In 1781, the orchestra moved into Leipzig's Gewandhaus, or "clothing house," a trading center for textile merchants. Over time, the building's name became the orchestra's.

Connoisseurs of symphony orchestras (there are such creatures) listen to them the way that some people taste wine. They savor an orchestra’s vintage, notice the blend and balance, enjoy the a… ...

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 Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig began as 16 musicians from a merchant concert society organized in 1743, but its roots go back to Telemann and Bach. It also collaborated with Mozart and ...

On the evening of Feb. 22, Andris Nelsons will give the downbeat on his tenure as music director of the storied Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. The following day he will participate in a civic ...

Andris Nelsons gestured toward the musicians before conducting a joint concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Germany's visiting Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra at Symphony Hall in Boston on ...

It's been 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the divide between East and West Germany. The anniversary was marked this week at Symphony Hall, where a German orchestra conducted ...

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