Leipzig is a county-level city in the Free State of Saxony. It forms a center for business, education and commerce and administration, culture and traffic in central Germany and was on 30 November 2013 with 530,761 inhabitants the largest Saxon city of Dresden city with 530,409 (as at 30 November 2013) and elfgrößte city of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Leipzig is one of the six regional centers of Saxony and, together with the neighboring city of Halle (Saale), the metropolitan area of Leipzig-Halle, in which over a million people live. With Hall and other cities in the states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia Leipzig is the metropolitan region of Central Germany.
After award of the city of law and market privileges around the year 1165, Leipzig developed already during the German Ostsiedlung an important trading center. Leipzig tradition as important trade fair location in Central Europe with one of the oldest fairs in the world dates back to the year 1190 and was closely linked to the long-standing role as an international center of Leipzig fur trade. Therefore Leipzig was officially renamed on 20 December 1937 in Empire city of Leipzig. In addition to Frankfurt am Main, the city is a historic center of printing and trafficking. Also located in Leipzig one of the oldest universities and the oldest universities both for trade and for music in Germany. Leipzig has a great musical tradition that dates back mainly to the work of Johann Sebastian Bach and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and is based, inter alia, the importance of the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the St. Thomas Boys Choir.
In the course of the Monday demonstrations in 1989, which gave a decisive impetus for the change in the GDR, Leipzig was called Hero City. The informal award for so bold as peaceful use of many citizens of Leipzig Kurt Masur, including in the context of the Nikolai Church in Leipzig coined the reputation of the city after the turn and is apprehended in city marketing under the slogan "Leipziger Freiheit".
Museums and Exhibitions
Museums
The Grassi Museum
Because of its history as an old university and trade fair city with a prosperous middle class there in Leipzig, a large number of important collections and exhibitions.
The Schiller house in Gohlis
Memorial Museum in the "Round Corner"
The University of Leipzig has a number of important collections. Some, such as the Egyptian Museum, the Museum of Ancient Art and the Museum of Musical Instruments, the public are permanently accessible. At the Museum Night of the city of Leipzig, the University presented their teaching collections to a wide audience. The HTWK maintains an automatic Museum.
The City History Museum is located in the Old Town Hall. In addition, it has extensions with the oldest cafe in Germany to Arab Coffe Baum, the Schiller house where Friedrich Schiller spent the summer of 1785, the Sports Museum Leipzig, founded in 1977 and the Battle of the Nations Monument. The Forum of Contemporary History in the inner city is, as a federal institution the Federal Chancellery. It presents the history of Germany from the Second World War to the present with emphasis on the history of the GDR. The Memorial Museum in the "Round Corner" in the former county seat of the Ministry of State Security, the mechanisms of the repressive apparatus operates in the GDR. On the subject of the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig and the surrounding area there are still other museums, such as tin figure museum in the gatehouse Dölitz, the medical and hospital museum Seifertshain, the grains Großzschocher House, the Memorial Museum Liebertwolkwitz and the regional museum in the gatehouse Markham.
In the Grassi Museum complex located next to the Musical Instrument Museum and the Museum of Applied Art and the Museum of Ethnology in Leipzig. The Natural History Museum Leipzig has a large collection of dermoplastics and supplements this range by changing special exhibitions on nature topics. The German allotment gardeners Museum is located in the clubhouse of the 1864 founded, the world's first allotment association.
In Panometers, one built in 1910 and 1977 disused gasometer, the largest panoramic painting in the world is to see. Yadegar Asisi shown here from 2003 to 2005 the panorama 8848Everest360 ° of Mount Everest, 2005 to February 2009 was Rome CCCXII and since March 2009, Amazon was seen.
Established in 2010, Children's Museum Leipzig offers changing exhibitions on topics of interest to children. There is also the Mitspielzeugmuseum a large collection of historic toys from the GDR and the former states of the Soviet bloc.
In memory of the same composers and musicians exist exhibitions in the Schumann and Mendelssohn House, and the Bach Archive and the Bach Museum.
Furthermore, there is the Saxon Psychiatry Museum, the Saxon Pharmacy Museum, the School Museum, the Railway Museum, the Crime Museum of the Middle Ages, the Supreme Court Museum and the camera and photo museum.
The private museum house of computer games has no fixed premises, but reached a traveling exhibition at fairs and festivals annually hundreds of thousands of visitors.
Visual Arts
To promote the art and to discuss the Free Academy of the Arts was founded in Leipzig along the lines of the Free Academy of the Arts in Hamburg on 17 June 1992.
The Museum of Fine Arts, founded in 1837 by the Leipziger Kunstverein has one of the most impressive collections of images of Germany, which shows about 58,500 exhibits from the late Middle Ages to modern, including some exhibits of the New Leipzig School, whose most famous representative comfortable Neo Rauch is. The Gallery of Contemporary Art, founded in 1990 complemented this offer with changing exhibitions of modern and contemporary art.
Opened in May 2005 in the cotton mill in Lindenau a gallery center. Eleven commercial and two non-commercial art spaces presenting contemporary works. About 80 performers entertain on the premises studios. Other commercial art centers are located in the wallpaper factory in Leipzig, the old trade school with the Leipzig School of Design (LSOD) and the plant on the West Karl Heine Canal. In addition, there are in the urban area numerous other galleries, art associations and temporary projects, which provide a lively exhibitions.
The University has a permanent exhibition of pieces from her art collection. Furthermore, the Sparkasse Leipzig operates an art gallery.
Musical Life
Orchestra
The Neues Gewandhaus
The Gewandhaus Orchestra is one of the most internationally renowned orchestra. As the oldest civilian concert band in Germany it was founded in 1781. The Gewandhaus has three venues: the Gewandhaus, Leipzig Opera and the St. Thomas Church. Chief conductors have included Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Václav Neumann, Kurt Masur and Herbert Blomstedt, Riccardo Chailly since 2005, the Office of the Gewandhaus Orchestra (principal conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra) holds. Ulf Schirmer is since the season 2009/10 General Music Director of the Leipzig Opera. The Last of Bach Collegium Musicum was founded in 1979 by members of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. As a "historic Bach Orchestra" it combines modern instruments and "historical" style of play, it is led by Albrecht winter since 2003.
The MDR Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1924 as the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra. Occurred while the successor to the existing since 1915 Orchestra of the concert association. In 1925 it was taken over by the then Central German Broadcasting AG and widely known as Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. Was principal conductor Herbert Kegel, among other things, today Kristjan Järvi conducts the orchestra. After the founding of the Central German Radio in 1991 it received its present name. The composed of musicians of the Radio Symphony Orchestra and from 1970 to 1993 existing group New Musik Hanns Eisler was one of the most important interpreters of new music in the DDR. Members of the group founded in 1990, the Forum of Contemporary Music in Leipzig. Furthermore, until 1993, was the Leipzig Consort and is since 1992 the ensemble Sortisatio support new music in Leipzig.
The Capella Fidicinia was founded by Hans Greet 1957 at the Museum of Musical Instruments at the University of Leipzig. The Chamber Orchestra will perform works by old masters on original instruments. The Academic Orchestra Leipzig in 1954 by Horst Förster launched at the University of Leipzig in life that guides it today. There is an annual 6 "Academic concerts" in the great hall of the Gewandhaus.
The Leipzig University Orchestra was founded in 2003 as a student in Leipzig orchestra. It is staffed by students and is a great symphony concert per semester as well as chamber music evenings. The Pauline Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1992 and stood until 2004 under the direction of Wolfgang Unger. It is the university choir with modern instruments. The Pauline Baroque Ensemble was formed in 1994 from the Pauline chamber orchestra out and play music exclusively on historical instruments.
The Youth Orchestra of the Leipzig School of Music is also one of the better known of the Leipzig orchestra scene.
The Leipzig Chamber Orchestra consists of musicians who study at the University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig or have completed. Established in 2001 orchestra maintains an extensive repertoire among other concerts in the Great Hall of the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Konzerthaus Berlin. Concert tours have taken the ensemble including China and India. The Chamber Orchestra is working under the direction of Michael Köhler.
The Leipzig String Quartet was founded in 1988 by former students of the Leipzig Academy of Music and Drama and later members of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. There is now an internationally recognized part of the chamber music scene.
The Ensemble Avantgarde to the composer and pianist Steffen Schleiermacher was until 2007 an association of musicians of various Leipzig orchestra, which was dedicated to the music of the 20th century. It founded the concert series Musica Nova at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.
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