Leipzig town hall concerts
The Leipzig Town Hall Concerts are a traditional concert series in Leipzig .
history
The Leipzig Town Hall Concerts are organized annually by the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) in the Renaissance ballroom of the Old Town Hall in Leipzig. They were founded in 1965 by the concert editor Fritz Hennenberg and opened with the conductor and composer Wolfgang Fortner . The town hall concerts were originally rights concerts of the MDR symphony orchestra and were broadcast by Radio DDR II .
Concert performers are mostly members of the MDR symphony orchestra and MDR radio choir . The violinist Wolf-Dieter Batzdorf , the pianists Alfons and Aloys Kontarsky , Rolf-Dieter Arens and Petr Eben , the conductors Giacomo Manzoni , Christian Münch , Jochen Wehner , Manfred Schubert , Jörg-Peter Weigle , Wolf-Dieter Hausschild and others performed Cristóbal Halffter , the Neue Musik Hanns Eisler group , the Ensemble Sortisatio , the Leipzig Horn Quartet , the Leipzig Wind Quintet , the Döring Wind Quintet , the New Bachische Collegium Musicum , the Meistersextett-Leipzig , the Modern String Quartet and the Wilanow Quartet .
Rare works of old and new music are presented. Well-known composers such as Siegfried Matthus (1971), Hans Werner Henze (1973), Siegfried Thiele (1975) and Dubravko Detoni (1978) attended their performances in Leipzig.
World premieres (selection)
- 1968: Music for wind quintet by Günter Neubert
- 1971: Wind quintet No. 2 by Fritz Geißler
- 1973: Double bass concert by Friedrich Schenker
- 1975: Jeux pour harp et orchester by Siegfried Thiele
- 1976: 3 pieces op. 40 by Krzysztof Meyer
- 1977: Concerto for trombone and three instrumental groups by Friedrich Goldmann
- 1979: Image serenade by Reiner Bredemeyer
- 1979: Kammerspiel II "Missa nigra" by Friedrich Schenker
- 1985: Alle Neune - A SCHÜTZenfestmusik by Reiner Bredemeyer
- 1995: Lethal Injection by Helmut Oehring
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ sound body. The concert magazine of the MDR ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF)
- ↑ J. Clemen; S. Lieberwirth: Central German radio. The history of the symphony orchestra. Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-930550-09-1 , p. 128.
