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Leipzig
1968 University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up

1945 Karl F Goerdeler, mayor (Leipzig)/"July 20th plot", hanged at 60

1944 Flying Fortresses of U.S. 8th Air Force attack Leipzig/Dessau

1935 Jacques Urlus, tenor (Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth), dies at 68

1923 Ernst Tollers "Hinkemann," premieres in Leipzig

1906 Ethel Smyth' "Standrecht," premieres in Leipzig

1896 Henrik Ibsen's "Kejsor og Galileer," premieres in Leipzig

1884 Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in E, premieres in Leipzig

1884 Karl F Goerdeler, mayor, Leipzig, "July 20th Plot"

1884 Wilhelm Backhaus, born in Leipzig, Germany, pianist, Rubinstein 1905

1879 John Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major premieres in Leipzig

1873 Max Reger, born in Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/prof, Leipzig Univ

1867 Jacques Urlus, Dutch tenor, Opera of Leipzig, Song of the Earth

1863 Franz Schuberts "Missa Solemnis," premieres in Leipzig

1861 Leipzig Observatory discovers short-period (6.2 yrs) Comet d'Arrest

1843 Robert Schumann's "Das Paradies und die Peri," premieres in Leipzig

1819 Clara Josephine Schumann, [nee Wieck], Leipzig Germ, pianist/composer

1813 Battle at Leipzig (Napoleon vs Prussia, Austria and Russia)

1801 Johann von Schiller's "Die Jungfrau von Orleans," premieres in Leipzig

1776 Friedrich von Klinger's "Sturm und Drang," premieres in Leipzig

1729 Johann S Bachs "Matthaus Passion" premieres in Leipzig

1724 Johann S Bach's "John Passion" premieres in Leipzig



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