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Music Trail Discovery Pass Notenspur - Entdeckerpass 13 Stories and Questions: All about the Little Leipzig Music Trail (Kleine Leipziger Notenspur) ___ www.notenspur-leipzig.de What is the Notenspur, Rules: How to Use the Discovery Pass Who knows, maybe on the historic streets or Music Trail? or in the historic houses you will meet this or that musician from the time when it all You will fi nd 13 stories as well as 13 riddles began… Certainly you already know that they call and 13 bonus questions in your Discovery Hello! Leipzig the City of Music. Many famous Pass. Words that will probably be new to musicians and composers lived, worked and you are marked with (an arrow symbol) and studied in our city. Some of them were born clarifi ed in a glossary beginning on the page Hello, discoverer! here in Leipzig, for others it became their 28. Fill in your answers on the page 32. Then fi nal resting place. rip the page out and hand it in at one of the Would you like to be taken on a very special The Leipzig Music Trail connects some of Stations marked with (a Toni symbol). It‛s tour through our city? Your answer is “yes”? the places where famous composers lived there that you will fi nd out if you responded Well, then discover the music world with the and worked in a city tour, on which you will to the questions correctly. And if you did, mascot Toni - join him on the Little Leipzig learn a lot about the City of Music. It will you will be rewarded! But keep in mind: it is Music Trail! be exciting to hear stories about musicians, valid only if it is an original answer sheet. You like to listen to music, maybe you sing in their families and their children. With the Have fun! a choir, in a school band or maybe you play help of the Discovery Pass („Entdeckerpass“) ____ a musical instrument? Then you will also be you can solve riddles or listen to musical sce- interested in fi nding out how it all started. nes adapted for children via phone at some Good to know: Follow these trails Please don‛t be surprised, we didn‛t forget Who were the Superstars 300 years back? made of stainless of the stations of the Little Leipzig Music anything: the stations of the Little Leip- Where and how did they live? Did they have steel! They are built Trail. zig Music Trail have the same numbers as children? Or friends? What did their instru- the stations of the main Music Trail. Not into the ground and ments look like? every station offers activities for child- show you the way! ____ ren, so you won‛t fi nd the following station This little book will transfer you back in To fi nd out more, visit us on numbers in the Discovery Pass: 4, 6, 9, 12, time while you are searching for exciting and www.notenspur-leipzig.de 14, 16, 17, 19, 20 and 22. unusual stories. Little Leipzig Music Trail – a musical discovery ____ Good to know: What a name can Sighard Gille QUESTION: BONUS QUESTION: tell – the New was born in 1941. In 1479 the City employed its fi rst musi- The 3rd letter of the Station Gustav Mahler lived from 1860 cians. The restaurant at the Gewandhaus keyword is the fi rst letter Gewandhaus to 1911. was named after them. Who were these of the fi rst name of the 01 “forefathers” of the Gewandhaus musici- Leipzig painter mentioned. ans? You can read the name from outside. Gewandhaus? What a funny name for a concert hall! But it tells us a lot about the Night watchmen This magnifi cent building was opened as a history of the building, namely that earlier, here, but things are decided by the city A (Nachtwächter) concert house in 1981. Inside you will see a more than 200 years ago, musicians gathe- inhabitants – citizens. These were, for large concert hall, which can seat almost 2 red at the Fair House of Cloth Merchants instance, merchants who prospered and 000 spectators. It has got a big organ as to give concerts there. „Gewand“ means wanted to experience something beautiful in Village wind instrument players well. clothing, and the Gewandhaus used to be a their free time - music. They got together (Dorfbläser) There is also a smaller hall (500 seats), place where cloth merchants used to keep and founded concert associations or had B which was named after composer Felix Men- their cloth. The musicians that performed opera houses built. delssohn Bartholdy. If you look through there were members of the „Gewandhaus Leipzig citizens selected music pieces to be the front windows, you will discover a huge Orchestra“ - the oldest citizens‛ orchestra played and also paid the musicians. That‛s Town pipers (Stadtpfeiffer) ceiling painting “Gesang vom Leben” (Melody in the world. why they call it a citizen music culture. of Life”), which was painted by the Leip- You will come across the word „citizen“ quite You surely understand that the building in C zig artist Sighard Gille, inspired by Gustav often on your tour around the musical city of front of you cannot be the former house of Mahler‛s composition “Lied von der Erde” Leipzig. cloth merchants. You will come across that (“Song of the Earth”). At night, when the Just like the word “Gewandhaus”, the word one later, if you follow the Little Leipzig Community fi ddlers (Gemeinde- whole building is illuminated, it looks espe- “citizen” speaks for itself: no king rules Music Trail. D fi edler) cially beautiful and solemn. Mendelssohn was talented in many ways. QUESTION: Flowers, notes and Apart from composing and conducting he musical history – Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy admired na- also played violin, piano and organ, spoke Station ture and loved being outdoors. A fl ower in several languages and was a great painter. the Mendelssohn the garden of the Mendelssohn House was ____ Having received excellent education himself, 02 named after him. Have you found it? What he founded the Music Conservatory in Leip- House Good to know: Felix Mendels- fl ower is it? zig in 1843. It was the fi rst higher education sohn Bartholdy institution of this kind in Germany. A great lived from 1809 number of similar schools have appeared to 1847. Rose since then. The Leipziger Hochschule für Musik und Theater, or the Leipzig Conser- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy grew up in a A vatoire, was named after its founder Felix musical family in Berlin. One of his biggest Mendelssohn Bartholdy. role models was Johann Sebastian Bach. The composer, his wife and their 5 children When he was 15 years old, his grandmo- lived from 1845 to 1847 in the house you ther presented him with a copy of Bach‛s Tulip B are standing in front of right now. Quite →“St Matthew Passion”. 5 years later he often they had guests and then they played performed this composition with the Berli- music in the →salon. The fi rst fl oor of ner →Singakademie. His passion for Bach‛s his direction. Sometimes he would put his conductor‛s baton aside to perform as a Mendelssohn‛s former house is now a muse- music was contagious. Carnation um. Mendelssohn came to Leipzig in 1835 and pianist, inter alia together with Clara Wieck. C became the Gewandhaus Music Director, (Later you will fi nd out who she was.) even though he was only 26 years old. Many Mendelssohn‛s commitment to the promotion BONUS QUESTION: of Bach‛s legacy remained very strong. He famous musicians came to Leipzig to play Forget-me-not The beginning letter of Bach‛s middle name music with the Gewandhaus Orchestra under established the world‛s fi rst Bach monument, is the 12th letter of the keyword. which you can see later on the Little Leipzig D Music and fairy QUESTION: As a child, who did Edward BONUS QUESTION: Grieg want to become? The 3rd letter of Grieg‘s fi rst name is the tale – the Grieg 6th letter of the keyword. Station Memorial Centre 03 A Musician One composer from Norway spent many Clearly, the children were taught how to took them so long to reach the destination a winter in this house. He was a guest of play the piano by their mother. Edvard was that one got a response many days later. Max Abraham and Henri Hinrichsen, who especially talented and learned fast. How- Priest But Edvard Hagerup Grieg – that‛s his full were the owners of the music publisher C.F. ever, he wanted to become a priest and not B name – found friends here soon, worked very Peters. (Later you will fi nd out what a mu- a musician. But one day the best Norwegian hard and became a brilliant, world-famous sic publisher is.) The composer‛s wife Nina violinist of that time – his name was Ole Bull composer. Norwegian fairytales and legends accompanied him during his visits to Leipzig. – visited Edvard‛s family and the boy played Baker about mountain trolls, which he heard in Norway is a country in Northern Europe. It the piano for him. When he fi nished playing, C his childhood, infl uenced his compositions, is very cold and cloudy there in winter. It the violinist and Edvard‛s parents had a talk among other his most famous work, which is not that warm in Leipzig either, but then and it was decided: “Edvard, you are going to was written in this house at Talstraße - Peer why would a Norwegian overwinter here? Leipzig to study at the →conservatory.” At Gynt, →Suite No.