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The Arena Leipzig is an indoor sporting arena located in Leipzig, Germany. The capacity of the arena is 8,000 people. It is currently the home venue... of HC Leipzig a german handball team.
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Gewandhaus is a concert hall in Leipzig, Germany, the home of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Today's hall is the third to bear this name; like the... second, it is noted for its fine acoustics.
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The BMW Central Building Located in Leipzig, Germany was the winning design submitted for competition by Pritzker Prize winning architect, Zaha... Hadid. The central building is the nerve center for BMW's new $1.55 billion complex built to manufacture the BMW 3 Series Vehicle. The BMW factory plan, prior to the design and build of the central building, existed as three disconnected buildings, all of which holding an integral part in the production of the BMW 3 Series vehicles. These three production buildings were designed in house by BMW's real estate and facility management group separately housing the fabrication of raw auto bodies , the paint shop , and the final assembly hall. The competition was for the design a centralized building to function as the physical connection of these three buildings. It also needed to house the administrative and employee needs spaces. Hadid's design took this idea of connectivity and used to inform every aspect of the building. The building serves as a connection for the assembly process steps and the employees.
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Zentralstadion was a multi-use stadium in Leipzig, Germany. It was initially used as the stadium of 1. FC Lokomotive Leipzig matches. It was replaced... by the current Zentralstadion in 2004. The capacity of the stadium was 100,000 spectators.
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Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, conductor, theatre director and polemicist primarily known for his operas . Wagner's compositions,... particularly those of his later period, are notable for their complex texture, rich harmonies and orchestration, and the elaborate use of leitmotifs: musical themes associated with individual characters, places, ideas or plot elements. Unlike most other opera composers, Wagner wrote both the music and libretto for every one of his stage works. Perhaps the two best-known extracts from his works are the Ride of the Valkyries from the opera Die Walküre, and the Wedding March from the opera Lohengrin. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works such as The Flying Dutchman and Tannhäuser which were broadly in the romantic vein of Weber and Meyerbeer, Wagner transformed operatic thought through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk .
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P. D. Q. Bach is a fictitious composer invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele. In a gag that Schickele has developed over a... five-decade-long career, he performs "discovered" works of this forgotten member of the Bach family. Schickele's music combines parodies of musicological scholarship, the conventions of Baroque and classical music, and slapstick comedy. The name "P. D. Q." is a parody of the three-part names given to some members of the Bach family that are commonly reduced to initials, such as C. P. E., for Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. PDQ is an initialism for "pretty damn quick". On several recordings Schickele states that he is a professor at the fictitious University of Southern North Dakota at Hoople. The city of Hoople, North Dakota actually exists, but it is in the northeastern part of the state. Schickele regularly tours, and has recorded on Vanguard and Telarc labels. Schickele gives a humorous fictional biography of the composer with facts such as the following: In preconcert lectures, Schickele joked that P. D. Q. Bach influenced Beethoven's famous deafness: Beethoven came to dread P. D. Q.
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Hanns Eisler was an Austrian/German composer. Eisler was born in Leipzig, the son of Marie and Rudolf Eisler, a professor of philosophy at Leipzig.... His father was Jewish and his mother was Lutheran. In 1901, the family moved to Vienna. His brother was the journalist and Communist Gerhart Eisler, who was believed to be a major Comintern agent. His sister was Ruth Fischer , a leader of the German Communist Party during the 1920s, author of several books, and from 2010, confirmed to have been a CIA spy. During World War I Hanns Eisler served as a front-line soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army and was wounded several times in combat. Returning to Vienna after Austria's defeat, he studied from 1919 to 1923 under Arnold Schoenberg. Eisler was the first of Schoenberg's disciples to compose in the twelve-tone or serial technique. He married Charlotte Demant in 1920; they separated in 1934. In 1925 Eisler moved to Berlin—then a hothouse of experimentation in music, theater, film, art and politics. There he became a member of the Communist Party of Germany and became involved with the November Group.
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Wilhelm Backhaus was a German pianist and pedagogue. He was particularly well known for his interpretations of Beethoven and romantic music such as... that by Brahms. He was also much admired as a chamber musician. One of the reasons for his unique sound is his choice of a Bösendorfer piano for his performances and recordings, as opposed to the more common use of Steinway pianos. Born in Leipzig, Backhaus studied at the conservatoire there with Alois Reckendorf until 1899, later taking private piano lessons with Eugen d'Albert in Frankfurt. As a boy of 9 or 10 he was taken to hear both of the Brahms piano concertos performed by d'Albert — and conducted by Brahms himself. He made his first concert tour at the age of sixteen. In 1905 he won the Anton Rubinstein Competition with Béla Bartók taking second place. He toured widely throughout his life - in 1921 he gave seventeen concerts in Buenos Aires in less than three weeks. Backhaus made his U.S. debut on January 5, 1912, as soloist in Beethoven's 5th Piano Concerto with Walter Damrosch and the New York Symphony Orchestra.
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Marty Kristian is a German-born Australian musician, he was a singer and 1970s heartthrob who was best known as a member of The New Seekers.... Kristian was brought up in Australia, originally training to be an architect at Melbourne University. In 1969 he became a member of the original line up of the New Seekers, along with Chris Barrington, Eve Graham, Sally Graham and Laurie Heath. He wrote or co-wrote some of the New Seekers' songs Kristian married his partner, Carol, in June 1975 in London. They have two sons, James, born 1981, and Oliver, born 1982. His wife runs an acting and drama school in the London area. On February 28, 2011 Marty released an album of demo recordings called 'Echoes', available from The New Seekers website www.thenewseekers.com Marty Kristian is now on facebook: Marty Kristian Echoes the demos album James Kristian has acted in several television programmes including the BBC Television series, Doctors. He also played the part of Allen Rissbrook in As If.
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Helmut Walcha was a blind German organist who specialized in the works of the Dutch and German baroque masters and is known for his recordings of... the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. Born in Leipzig, Walcha was blinded at age 19 after vaccination for smallpox. Despite his disability, he entered the Leipzig Conservatory and became an assistant at the Thomaskirche to Günther Ramin, who was professor of organ at the conservatory and cantor at St. Thomas'. In 1929, Walcha accepted a position in Frankfurt am Main at the Friedenskirche and remained in Frankfurt for the rest of his life. From 1933 to 1938 he taught at the Hoch Conservatory. In 1938 he was appointed professor of organ at the Musikhochschule in Frankfurt and organist of the Dreikönigskirche in 1946. He retired from public performance in 1981. Walcha recorded Bach's complete works twice, once in mono , and again in stereo from 1956-71. This latter stereo cycle , has been remastered, and repackaged in an economical collector's edition 12-CD box.
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Till Lindemann is a German musician, actor and poet who is the frontman for the German Neue Deutsche Härte band Rammstein. Till Lindemann was... born in Leipzig, East Germany, but he grew up in the village of Wendisch-Rambow near Schwerin . His father was children's poet Werner Lindemann and his mother, Brigitte "Gitta" Hildegard Lindemann, was a journalist and writer until she retired. Lindemann has one sister who is six years younger. At age 11 he went to a sports school at the Empor Rostock Sport Club, and from 1977 to 1980 attended a boarding school. His parents lived separately for career reasons after 1975. In 1978 Lindemann was a participant in the European Junior Swimming Championships in Florence finishing seventh in the 1500 m, and was shortlisted to go to 1980 Olympics in Moscow but discontinued the sport soon after because of an injury. According to Lindemann, "I never liked the sport school actually, it was very intense. But as a child you don't object." Lindemann later worked as an apprentice carpenter, a gallery technician, a peat cutter and a basket weaver. In 1985, Lindemann's first daughter Nele, was born.
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