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Chamber music at Gewandhaus
Leipzig, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig — Mendelssohn Saal
About the Event
Enjoy masterpieces of chamber music with outstanding musicians in the unique atmosphere of the famous Gewandhaus Leipzig.
The Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, built in 1981 as home to the Gewandhausorchester, plays host to over 600 events and in excess of half a million visitors each year. The Gewandhaus stages around 250 classical concerts per season: Große Concerte with the Gewandhausorchester, chamber music, choral and organ concerts, music festivals and much more. The Gewandhaus‘s performance programme is complemented and enriched by a diverse range of music education and outreach activities and projects.
The phenomenal acoustic of the Great Hall has set a benchmark worldwide and must shy away from no comparisons with the world‘s newest concert halls. The sonic environment provided by the Great Hall was engineered to complement the considerable demands of the Gewandhausorchester. The steeply rising ‚vineyard‘ terraces offer perfect viewing from each of the Hall‘s 1,900 seats. The Mendelssohn Hall with its 498 seats offers a more intimate ambience for chamber music concerts. The Gewandhaus is the only concert hall to have been built during the GDR era.
Situated centrally, on Augustplatz, the Gewandhaus can be reached by foot quickly from any point in the city centre.
Program
- Joseph Haydn – String Quartet No. 62 in C major, op. 76/3 Hob. III: 77 'Emperor'
- Béla Bartók – 2. Streichquartett a‐Moll op. 17 Sz 67
- Ludwig van Beethoven – String Quartet no. 15 in A minor, op. 132
Artists
| Quartet: | Hagen Quartett The Hagen Quartet is made up of three members of one Salzburg family — Lukas, Veronika and Clemens Hagen — and the German violinist Rainer Schmidt, who joined the quartet in autumn 1987, replacing Annette Bik. The three Hagens studied at the Salzburg Mozarteum: Veronika and Lukas were students of Helmut Zehetmair; Clemens's teacher was Wilfried Tachezi. Rainer Schmidt studied in Germany, Canada and the USA, where he attended the Cincinnati Conservatory under the tutelage of Walter Levin and Dorothy DeLay. Hatto Beyerle, Heinrich Schiff and Oleg Maisenberg also played important roles in the artistic development of the musicians. The meeting with Nikolaus Harnoncourt helped to expand their field of musical vision, as did the friendship and artistic relationship with Gidon Kremer, who has regularly involved the ensemble in his chamber‐music projects at the Lockenhaus Chamber Music Festival.
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Address
Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Augustusplatz 8, Leipzig, Germany — Google Maps
