TACHELES – JEWISH TUNES BY THE LEIPZIG ROMANTICS

What do Jewish influences in music sound like? To mark the themed year ‘Tacheles – Jewish Culture in Saxony’, CON SPIRITO will be exploring the ‘Jewish Tunes’ of the Leipzig Romantics from 12 to 20 September 2026. The programme will highlight the friendships between the Schumanns and the Mendelssohns, as well as those with Joseph Joachim, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Heinrich Heine, Ferdinand Hiller and Ferdinand David. Richard Wagner also takes centre stage with his youthful admiration for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Giacomo Meyerbeer, which later turned into the exact opposite. Look forward to the 6th festival season at Leipzig’s European Heritage Sites – this is where music comes alive!

Programme:

Ludwig van Beethoven/Ignaz Moscheles
Overture to ‘Egmont’
(Arrangement for flute, violin, cello and piano)

Carl Frühling
Clarinet Trio, Op. 40

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
String Octet, Op. 20

Antje Weithaas, Sergey Ostrovsky, Angela Chan, Jona Schibilsky | Violin
Pauline Sachse, Noémie Bialobroda | Viola
Peter Bruns, Yibai Chen | Cello
Anna Garzuly-Wahlgren | Flute
Thorsten Johanns | Clarinet
Oliver Triendl | Piano

Venue: Gewandhaus Leipzig, Mendelssohn Hall
Tickets: Category 1: 35/25 EUR (con.) plus booking fee | Category 2: 30/20 EUR (con.) plus booking fee

Available from the Gewandhaus box office.

Concessions: students, children, Leipzig-Pass holders, people with severe disabilities

Further information: www.conspiritoleipzig.de