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Mulled wine, gingerbread, trumpeters on the tower –
at one of Germany’s loveliest Christmas Markets set against the backdrop
of the Old City Hall.
The Leipzig Christmas Market is a tradition dating back to 1767. Thanks
to its magical setting in front of the Old City Hall and its wide range
of original craft items and Christmas fare, it has since become an
almost legendary event. The range of Christmas items is accompanied by a
series of special concerts, such as organ music in the churches,
Christmas concerts in the Bach Archive, Handel’s Messiah in the
Gewandhaus, and performances of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio by St Thomas’s
Boys Choir and the Gewandhaus Orchestra in St Thomas’s Church – the
place where Johann Sebastian Bach worked for 27 years – as well as many
other churches. Younger visitors will especially love the
trumpet-players performing in the tower of the Old City Hall, Fairytale
Forest, the Kinderland children’s paradise beneath the Marketplace, and
the chance to meet Father Christmas every day. |
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