Johannus Sampleset Leipzig for Live III  

The musical world has Leipzig to thank for a great deal of beauty. Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Robert Schumann, Edvard Grieg, Georg Philip Telemann: all of these great men lived, studied and worked in Leipzig.

In the heart of this musical birthplace, the architects Heinrich Rust and Alfred Mu¨ller designed the Michaeliskirche between 1901 and 1904. When this house of God was almost complete, the famous organ builder Wilhelm Carl Friedrich Sauer filled it with resounding music with a three-manual organ. It was not his first, nor his last instrument; Sauer was responsible for designing more than 1,100 organs. His ‘final great masterpiece’ can be found in the Berliner Dom; with 113 stops, it’s the largest organ that he ever built. In Leipzig, his grandeur echoes through the Michaeliskirche with 46 stops. Bigger is not always better.