The Gewandhaus concert hall on Augustusplatz, its glazed front and bronze-clad upper storey seen across the square, with the Mendebrunnen fountain and obelisk in front The Gewandhaus from the side of Augustusplatz, with the Mendebrunnen obelisk to the right and the City-Hochhaus tower behind
Concert hall 2 hireable spaces Classical

Gewandhaus zu Leipzig

Leipzig's main concert hall and home of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, opened in 1981 on Augustusplatz, with a 1,900-seat Großer Saal and the 500-seat Mendelssohn-Saal.

Augustusplatz 8, 04109 Leipzig, Germany
Up to 1,900
capacity
2 spaces
hireable
Contact the venue for dates and times
available for hire

About this venue

The Gewandhaus zu Leipzig is the city's principal concert hall and home of the Gewandhaus Orchestra. The present building, the third Gewandhaus, opened on 8 October 1981 on what is now Augustusplatz, after four years of construction. Earlier Gewandhaus concert halls go back to 1781. The building has two halls: the Großer Saal, with about 1,900 seats, and the smaller Mendelssohn-Saal, with about 500 seats, which took that name after a renovation in 1997. The house puts on around 700 events a season, about 70 of them Gewandhaus Orchestra concerts.

The Spaces

Großer Saal

Main concert hall

Capacity

Seated
up to 1,900

1,900 seats per miz.org and ADAC; some sources say almost 2,000.

Mendelssohn-Saal

Chamber hall

Former Kleiner Saal, reopened as the Mendelssohn-Saal on 28 Sep 1997.

Capacity

Seated
up to 500

500 seats per miz.org; ADAC and CanonBase give 498.

Technical and venue information is available directly from the venue.

Gallery

The Gewandhaus at night, the lit foyer behind the glass front showing the painted ceiling mural Close view through the Gewandhaus glass facade of the large foyer ceiling mural 'Gesang vom Leben'

Location

Augustusplatz 8, 04109 Leipzig, Germany

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