Gewandhaus

For other buildings called "Gewandhaus", see cloth hall.

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.

• The first concert hall was constructed in 1781 by architect Johann Carl Friedrich Dauthe inside the Gewandhaus, a building used by textile 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 fire-bombings 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.

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

Gallery

• Leipzig Gewandhaus 1781.jpg

  First Gewandhaus (1781).

• Leipzig Konzerthaus ca 1910.jpg

  Second Gewandhaus (1884).

• Bundesarchiv Bild 183-S1108-028, Leipzig, Gewandhaus, Grundsteinlegung.jpg

  Kurt Masur lays the foundation stone of the current Gewandhaus

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  Third Gewandhaus (1981).

See also

• List of concert halls

References

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

External links

• History of the Gewandhaus from the official site