The Leipzig Museum of City History is devoting a new exhibition to the musical life of the city during the Nazi era. The museum says its exhibition “Swastika and Clef” shows in nine thematic areas that Leipzig’s musical institutions – such as the St Thomas’s Boys Choir, the Opera and the Gewandhaus – were often sympathetic to the regime. The exhibition also looks in some detail at the lives of some of the artists of the time. A central section is dedicated to Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn, better known in Germany with the surname Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Wagner was Hitler’s favourite comp…