Gewandhaus

Gewandhaus is a concert hall in Leipzig, Germany, 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.

For other buildings called "Gewandhaus", see cloth hall.
Current Gewandhaus
The Gewandhaus at the Augustusplatz in Leipzig with the Mendebrunnen at night (2016).
The Gewandhaus at the Augustusplatz in Leipzig with the Mendebrunnen (2016).

History
  • The first concert hall was constructed in 1781 by architect Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe inside the Gewandhaus, a building used by cloth (garment) merchants.
  • The second Gewandhaus was designed by Martin Gropius. It opened on 11 December 1884, and had a main concert hall and a chamber music hall. It was destroyed in the firebombings of World War II between 1943 and 1944.
  • The third Gewandhaus on Augustusplatz opened on 8 October 1981, two hundred years after the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra moved into the original hall.

Description

The hall contains a concert organ: Schuke, Potsdam IV-92-6638.

  • First Gewandhaus (1781)
  • Second Gewandhaus (c. 1910)
  • Kurt Masur lays the foundation stone of the current Gewandhaus
  • Bond for the funding of the second Gewandhaus in Leipzig, issued 1. July 1884[1]

See also

References
  1. Manfred Dennecke: Deutsche Wirtschafts- und Finanzgeschichte, pp 148; ISBN 3-9520775-0-X

Sources
  • Leo Beranek, Concert Halls and Opera Houses: Musics, Acoustics, and Architecture, Springer, 2004, page 280. ISBN 0-387-95524-0.

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