World Famous City of Music - A Walk on the Leipzig Music Trail

Whether you are interested in Johann Sebastian Bach, who assumed office as organist and choirmaster of the world famous boys’ choir of St. Thomas Church or Georg Philipp Telemann who achieved success as a composer in Leipzig, or possibly Robert Schumann, who fell in love with Clara Wieck here, or Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy who worked as orchestra…

Discovering Bach – A Well-Tempered City Walk

Visiting the Bach Family – A Tour with Bach’s Wife, Anna Magdalena

With his Archive, Museum and the Bach Festival, you will always be confronted with the name of Johann Sebastian Bach in Leipzig. When Bach assumed the office as organist and choirmaster of the world famous boys’ choir of St. Thomas Church in 1723, his constantly growing family moved to Leipzig, too. On this tour Bach’s second wife Anna Magdalena…

Richard Wagner – A Leipziger

He was born in Leipzig in 1813, the year of the Battle of the Nations. Here he distinguished himself in his childhood and teens in music and his ambition to become a musician grew. But the musical dramatist’s relationship to the city of his birth – and city’s tolerance for him – had its ups and downs. You will hear the reasons why as we follow in…

Following Mendelssohn’s Footsteps on the Music Trail

Follow us on the trail of the great composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. We start at tourist information. On our way to the Mendelssohn statue near the St. Thomas church we will pass the Coffebaum café and restaurant, where well-known personalities such as Schumann, Mendelssohn, Wagner, Liszt, Mahler and many others were guests. The old Bach…