Leipzig had long been a major center for music, spawning a fair amount of the world’s best music from 1720-1860. It has been a trade city since the time of the Holy Roman Empire, hosting the oldest surviving trade fair in the world. Sitting at the intersection of two important medieval trade routes, it has been a major center for publishing and home to one of the oldest universities in Europe, dating from 1409. The town’s enviable economic status stimulated a notable cultural life based particularly on the early development of the printing industry but also including the musical efflorescence associated with Johann Sebastian Bach. 

Ms. Enger has created a program to capture the essence of this vital city and the varied musical personalities that passed through and left their mark, J S Bach, Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn, who established Germany’s first music conservatoire in Leipzig, Clara and Robert Schumann, Hanns Eisler, Walter Braunfels, Edvard Grieg, Ethel Smyth, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt and Gustav Mahler. 

Mahler: “Ich bin der Welt abhanden abgekommen” from Rückert-Lieder for solo piano

Repertoire Selected from the Following:

• WTC Book 1 – Prelude in C major, BWV 846 J.S. Bach
• WTC Book 1 – Prelude and Fugue in B flat minor, BWV 867 J.S. Bach
• O Traum der Jugend, O Goldener Stern Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
• Songs Without Words, Op. 19: No. 6, Andante sostenuto “Venetianisches Gondellied” Felix Mendelssohn
• Songs Without Words, Op. 30: No. 6, Allegretto tranquillo “Venetianisches Gondellied” Felix Mendelssohn
• Songs Without Words, Op. 19: No. 1, Andante con moto Felix Mendelssohn
• 3 Preludes and Fugues, Op.16: Präludium II Clara Schumann
• Trois Romances, Op. 11: No. 3, Moderato Clara Schumann
• 3 Romanzen, Op. 28: No. 2, Einfach Robert Schumann
• Sonatine, Op. 44 “Gradus ad Parnasum” Hans Eisler
• Bagatellen für Klavier, Op. 5: No. 3, Ruhig, warm Walter Braunfels
• Lyric Pieces, Book 1 Op. 12: No. 1, Arietta Edvard Grieg
• Lyric Pieces, Book 5 Op. 54: No. 4, Notturno Edvard Grieg
• Aus der Jugendzeit!! Ethel Smyth
• Klavierstück in E from Sämtliche Klavierwerke Ethel Smyth
• Four Pieces for Piano, Op. 119: No. 1, Intermezzo in B minor Johannes Brahms
• Fantasies, Op. 116: No. 4, Intermezzo in E major Johannes Brahms
• 3 Intermezzi, Op. 117: No. 1, Andante moderato Johannes Brahms
• Sonata No. 1, Op. 1 in C major Johannes Brahms
• Selections from The Seasons Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• Consolation No. 2 Franz Liszt
• Six Piano Pieces, Op. 11: No. 1. Elegie Robert Kahn
• Six Piano Pieces, Op. 11: No. 2, Idylle Robert Kahn
• Dans le Canot (Barcarolle) from Five Pieces George W. Chadwick
• “Ich bin der Welt abhanden abgekommen” from Rückert-Lieder Gustav Mahler (Arr. by Ryan Lindveit)