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| Gawandhous Concert Hall, 1845 |
In 1743 a society called Grosses Concert (Grand Concert)
started putting on concerts in private homes and taverns in Leipzig. Unlike how
music had been played as part of the service in the church or of royal suites, this
group of musician played concerts solely for the sake of music. They continued
giving concerts in this fashion for 36 years until the Leipzig textile guild
offered them their trading room as concert hall, thus came the birth of the
Leipzig Gawandhaus (Cloth Hall) Orchestra, the first symphony orchestra in the
world. On the balustrade above the stage in the old Gawandhaus concert hall a
Latin phrases uttered by the Roman philosopher Seneca was inscribed, True Joy Is A Serious Matter. This has
been the orchestra’s motto for 270 years. This is the most fitting description
of music and all arts.
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