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How do Jewish influences in music sound like? In the theme year ‘Tacheles – Jewish Culture in Saxony’, CON SPIRITO will be tracing the Jewish tunes of Leipzig's Romantics from 12 to 20 September 2026. Friendships between the Schumanns and the Mendelssohns, Joseph Joachim, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Heinrich Heine, Ferdinand Hiller and Ferdinand David will be audible. Richard Wagner will also come into focus with his youthful enthusiasm for Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Giacomo Meyerbeer, which later turned into the opposite.

International stars of the chamber music scene will also be performing at the sixth festival season: Antje Weithaas, Angela Chan (winner of the Joseph Joachim Violin Competition 2024), Shirley Brill, Tobias Feldmann, Jalda Rebling, Sergey Ostrovsky, Pauline Sachse, Peter Bruns and many more.

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The label recognises European heritage sites that are milestones on the way to creating the Europe we know today. Spanning from the dawn of civilisation to the Europe we know today, these sites celebrate and symbolise European ideals, values, history and integration.

On 5 December 2017, the European Commission declared that an independent jury nominated "Leipzig's Musical Heritage Sites" for the European Heritage Label. In March and June 2018, the Heritage Label was officially awarded.

"Leipzigs Musikerbe-Stätten - Leipzig's Musical Heritage Sites" include St. Thomas' and St. Nicholas' Churches, St. Nicholas' School, the Bach Archive, the Mendelssohn House, the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music and Theatre, the Schumann House, the C. F. Peters music publishing building with Grieg meeting place, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus.

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The "Leipziger Notenspur" (Leipzig Music Trail) records the most important places where famous Leipzig composers lived and worked and connects them with a visually highlighted marker in the city centre. It is 5.1 km long and can be explored on foot.

With a view to the anniversary years 2006 (150th anniversary of his death) and 2010 (200th birthday), a Schumann network was launched in autumn 2005. Under the leadership of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, a number of institutions associated with Robert Schumann in the Schumann cities of Zwickau, Leipzig, Düsseldorf and Bonn joined forces with the aim of paying tribute to the great German composer (1810, Zwickau - 1856, Bonn) and helping to maximise public awareness by bundling their activities. In this sense, other Schumann cities have been included in the meantime, as the goal is to provide the most comprehensive "coverage" of Robert Schumann possible.

Since November 2005, the Working Group of German Musicians' Museums has been in existence and more than 40 museums from all over Germany have joined it. The Working Group sees itself as a platform that enables the musicians' museums to exchange information with each other and to cooperate in the fields of marketing and public relations. Wherever it makes sense, the museums want to carry out intensive media work in order to raise the profile of Germany as a museum location and country of music, both nationally and internationally.