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Article: Tripping the Leipzig fantastic
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 24, 1995
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Tripping the Leipzig fantastic
Leipzig before the Great War was an impossibly romantic place.
The author's mother went
there for the music, art and exuberant social life. Today, the
city's spirit lives again
NOT LONG before the First World War, my mother - in the
innocence of her girlhood - arrived at Leipzig to study at the
Konigliche Conservatorium der Musik, founded by Mendelssohn some 70
years before and by then one of the most celebrated music schools
in the world. So happy were the three years she spent in this old
Saxon city, and so affectionate her memories of it, that I grew up
myself with a vague but indelible reverence for the place that
coloured my childhood and was permanently ...