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The Gewandhaus at the Augustusplatz in Leipzig-Mitte with the Mendebrunnen at night (2016). Current Gewandhaus. Gewandhaus (German: [ɡəˈvanthaʊs] ⓘ) is a concert hall in Leipzig, 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 Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (Gewandhausorchester; also previously known in German as the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig) is a German symphony orchestra based in Leipzig, Germany. The orchestra is named after the concert hall in which it is based, the Gewandhaus ("Garment House").
The Mendebrunnen is located at Augustusplatz in front of the Gewandhaus (Concert Hall) (). It is the largest fountain in Leipzig and cost 189,000 gold marks to construct. It was built by Adolf Gnauth in 1883–86.
A concert hall is a cultural building with a stage that serves as a performance venue and an auditorium filled with ... Gewandhaus: 1981 1,900 Leipzig Gewandhaus ...
Hence, the Gewandhaus orchestra in 1884 moved to the newly built Neues Concerthaus (new concert house), home to the orchestra until 1943, when it was destroyed by bombing. After an interim in the congress hall, the Gewandhaus Orchestra's permanent home today is the (third) Gewandhaus, located ON the Augustusplatz.
Philharmonic Hall also known as Philharmonie refers to concert halls that have an in-house orchestra: Elbphilharmonie , Hamburg, Germany Gewandhaus Philharmonie , Augustusplatz, Leipzig, Germany
In the 14th Gewandhaus concert on 12 February 1948, the organ was played for the first time by Günther Ramin, and works by Handel, Bach and Bruckner were heard. Due to the fact that the organ was divided between two widely separated locations in the hall, its technical construction was complicated and it was very susceptible to malfunctions.
The Gewandhaus building is considered Skoda's main work; it was the only purely new concert hall building in the history of the GDR. The West German trade press also praised the design with its richness of form as extraordinary for the GDR, "in which - in view of the dreary monotony of mass-produced buildings made of commonplace assembly parts ...