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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Cultural Philanthropy on Stage -- Part 2: Cultural Philanthropy for Show -- Part 3: Cultural Philanthropy Unresolved -- Part 1 Cultural Philanthropy on Stage -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Chapter 1 Theater in the Second City -- 1 Theatrical and Operatic Leipzig before 1766 -- 2 Building on the Edge: The Theater on the Rannstadt Bastion -- 3 Local Control: The Komödienhaus Becomes the Stadttheater -- Chapter 2 Pride and Scandal: Creating a Municipal Theater -- 1 Transitions and Revolutions -- 2 Money Talks: Financing and Building the Neues Theater -- 3 Fighting Out in the Open: Scandal and Ruin -- 4 Access Means Control: Intragovernmental Conflict -- Part 2 Cultural Philanthropy for Show: Museums -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Chapter 3 Kunstkammer - Kunstverein - Kunstsmuseum: The City Art Museum -- 1 Keeping Up with the Augustiner: Leipzig vs. Dresden and the Formation of the Leipziger Kunstverein -- 2 The Business of Fancy: The Kunstverein and Leipzig's Economic Elites -- 3 Framing the Art: Building a Museum -- Chapter 4 Art, Commerce, and a Global Presence: The Grassi Museum -- 1 "Leipzig kommt!" Becoming a Großstadt -- 2 Windfall: The Grassi Bequest -- 3 Aesthetics and Commerce: The Applied Arts Museum -- 4 The Museum für Völkerkunde: Consuming the World -- 5 Municipal Museums and Leipzig's Self-Representation as an 'Art City' -- Part 3 Cultural Philanthropy Unresolved: Musikstadt Leipzig -- Introduction to Part 3 -- Chapter 5 Ensemble Players: The Großes Concert and Musical Life in Leipzig before 1850 -- 1 The Großes Concert and the Origins of the Gewandhaus Orchestra -- 2 Becoming the Orchestra in the Gewandhaus -- 3 Musical Networks -- 4 Rise to Fame: The Gewandhaus to Mid-Century.