As I did for my 2013 trek across Europe I visited key locations where famous classical music composers lived and worked in past centuries. I left Berlin and cycled for three days south arriving in Leipzig to visit Mendelssohn’s home and museum which contains a collection about his life and work. Not only was Mendelssohn a gifted composer but a skilled conductor taking up the position of music director at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. He lived here from 1845 until his death in 1847. His sister Fanny was also a gifted pianist and composer who died the same year. Like Beethoven and Schumann both Felix and Fanny composed in the early Romantic style.
Bach was also a famous resident here during the Baroque era and many of us will appreciate the genius of his work. He was a composer, conductor, teacher and performer and in 1723 obtained the post of cantor (music director) for Leipzig and the Lutheran church. He mastered the church organ and the scoring and presentation of German church choral music both sacred and secular known as cantatas along with numerous instrumental works.
Church where Bach often performed
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