Jürgen Ernst

Dr. Jürgen Ernst is the founder and the director of the Mendelssohn-Haus Leipzig museum, who still manages the house to this day. The house contains the last (and only surviving) private residence of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The Mendelssohn House now houses a museum in honor of Mendelssohn. It was opened on 4 November 1997, the 150th anniversary of the musician's death, and is operated by the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation. Maestro Kurt Masur was the initiator of the renovation of the house and the opening as a museum. In 2018, the Mendelssohn-Haus Leipzig has been awarded the European Heritage Label as a musical venue with eight other Leipzig music institutions.