Location Zweites Gewandhaus, Mendelssohn-Ufer

The Great Hall, which had space for 1.500 people, was highly praised for its architecture and acoustics. The Chamber Music Hall had a capacity of around 500 people. In 1892, a monument to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was unveiled in front of the second Gewandhaus. During the Second World War, the building burned down in bomb attacks. It remained a ruin, which was blown up in 1968.

In 1947, Walter Arnold created a new Mendelssohn monument, which today stands just a few meters from its original location - on the so-called Mendelssohn bank of the renovated Pleißemühlgraben. The five steps symbolize five lines of music on which the first notes of Mendelssohn's E minor violin concerto are represented by wooden cubes.