ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the roles of the authorities and professors. The council's goals and activities, and its interactions with other authorities, varied from one project to another. The chapter explores the roles of burghers and sub-burghers. Burghers largely funded each project by paying for the construction of pews and making additional donations. In developing new religious venues contemporaries turned to two styles, one parallel to and influenced by Pietism, the other high Baroque. The public religious arena remained at the center of urban communication, politics, and the negotiation and reproduction of social relations. An important innovation of the New Church musicians was to introduce the concerted, figural passion into Leipzig's musical life. The renovation projects led to an expansion of Leipzig's music hierarchy. At a high point of their general economic and political power, Leipzig's city councilors greatly expanded their roles as patrons of religious life.
