Gewandhaus
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Gewandhaus is a concert hall in Leipzig, the home of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the second, it is noted for its fine acoustics.
The Gewandhaus at the Augustusplatz in Leipzig-Mitte with the Mendebrunnen at night (2016).
Gewandhaus in 2011
Gewandhaus in 1988
First Gewandhaus (1781). Watercolour by Felix Mendelssohn, with some lines from the opera Ali Baba by Luigi Cherubini, presented to Henriette Grabau-Bünau, principal singer of the Gewandhaus, to mark Mendelssohn's inaugural concert there on 4 October 1835.
Architecture of Leipzig
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The history of the architecture of Leipzig extends from the Middle Ages to the 21st century. Numerous typical buildings and valuable cultural monuments from different eras are still preserved or have
Gewandhaus
…Today's Gewandhaus has a seating capacity of 1,900 and features a Schuke concert organ with 6,845 pipes. Architecture of Leipzig#New Gewandhaus Leo Beranek, Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Musics, Acoustics, and Architecture, Springer, 2004, page 280. ISBN 0-387-95524-0…
Ballroom in the Old Town Hall – Renaissance (2010)
Roßplatz – Socialist Classicism (2014)
New Gewandhaus (left) and City-Hochhaus (right) on Augustusplatz – Modernism (2006)
City seal of Leipzig (13th century). Inscription: “Sigillum Burgensium de Lipzk”