The fascinating power of music can be felt everywhere in Leipzig and the surrounding region – on streets and squares, in churches, concert halls, castles, palaces, monasteries, on impressive open-air stages and at the many authentic places where famous musicians lived and worked. Over the past centuries, more than 500 composers lived and worked here, including these great figures of music history: Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Clara and Robert Schumann, as well as Richard Wagner, Edvard Grieg, Albert Lortzing, Gustav Mahler, and Hanns Eisler. You can experience the originally preserved places of world-famous composers along the Leipziger Notenspur.
The city's rich musical heritage also includes the Gewandhausorchester, the world-famous Thomanerchor, and the Oper Leipzig, which has always been committed to preserving the Wagner legacy and is one of the oldest civic music theatre stages in Europe.
But Leipzig is not only a city with a great musical history — it also keeps tradition alive. The city attracts classical music fans with top-class festivals and an impressive musical events calendar.
