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Hannes Kästner
Hannes Kästner (27 October 1929 in – 14 July 1993 in Leipzig) was a German organist and harpsichordist. During his school days, Kästner was a member of the St. Thomas School, Leipzig from 1940 to 1948. After finishing high school at the Thomasschule, he studied church music with Günther Ramin at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig. While still a student in 1949, Martin Petzoldt: ''Die Thomasorganisten zu Leipzig'', in Christian Wolff : ''Die Orgeln der Thomaskirche zu Leipzig'', Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Leipzig 2012, , Inhalt von Seite 132. he served as a substitute and in 1951 was appointed as official representative to the vacant post. In 1953 he took over the office, which he held until 1984. After the office of Thomaskantor became vacant in 1960 due to Kurt Thomas departure, he fulfilled it provisionally until Erhard Mauersberger Erhard Mauersberger (29 December 1903 in Mauersberg, Saxony – 11 December 1982 in Leipzig) was a German choral con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leipzig
Leipzig ( , ; Upper Saxon: ) is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony. Leipzig's population of 605,407 inhabitants (1.1 million in the larger urban zone) as of 2021 places the city as Germany's eighth most populous, as well as the second most populous city in the area of the former East Germany after (East) Berlin. Together with Halle (Saale), the city forms the polycentric Leipzig-Halle Conurbation. Between the two cities (in Schkeuditz) lies Leipzig/Halle Airport. Leipzig is located about southwest of Berlin, in the southernmost part of the North German Plain (known as Leipzig Bay), at the confluence of the White Elster River (progression: ) and two of its tributaries: the Pleiße and the Parthe. The name of the city and those of many of its boroughs are of Slavic origin. Leipzig has been a trade city since at least the time of the Holy Roman Empire. The city sits at the intersection of the Via Regia and the Via Imperii, two important medieval trad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
