The Gewandhausorchester Leipzig goes back to the Große Concert founded in 1743 by 16 Leipzig noblemen and citizens and describes itself as the oldest civic symphony orchestra in the world. It has borne its name since moving into the Gewandhaus of the cloth makers in 1781; Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was Gewandhauskapellmeister from 1835. The orchestra is the concert orchestra of the Gewandhaus and the opera orchestra of the Oper Leipzig and plays the weekly Bach cantatas at the Thomaskirche with the Thomanerchor; it appears about 300 times a year at three Leipzig venues. Since 2018 Andris Nelsons has been Gewandhauskapellmeister. The orchestra can be heard on the Cybele album Wolfgang Hufschmidt: Meissner Tedeum (2003).
Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Orchestra
Recordings on Cybele
Concert calendar
04. Feb 2027
19:30
Großes Concert – Kurt Masur zum 100. Geburtstag(opens in a new tab)
World premiere
05. Feb 2027
19:30
Großes Concert – Kurt Masur zum 100. Geburtstag(opens in a new tab)
World premiere
