Felix Mendelssohn BiographyBorn: February 3, 1809 Hamburg, Germany Died: November 4, 1847 Leipzig, Germany German composer Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer (a writer of music), conductor (the leader of a musical group), pianist, and organist. He developed a basic classical approach ...
Felix Mendelssohn, grandson of the distinguished Jewish thinker Moses Mendelssohn, the additional surname Bartholdy adopted on his conversion to Christianity, was born in Hamburg, the son of a banker. The family moved to Berlin, where Mendelssohn was brought up, able to associate with a cultured c...
Mendelssohn suffered from bad health in the final years of his life, probably aggravated by nervous problems and overwork, and he was greatly distressed by the death of his sister Fanny in May 1847. Felix Mendelssohn died later that same year after a series of strokes, on November 4, 1847,...
Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
Felix Mendelssohn, Charles-Valentin Alkan, and Vincenzo Bellini (beside whom he is buried in the Pиre Lachaise). His music was already admired by many of his composer contemporaries, among them Robert Schumann who penned the now famous review of the Variations Op. 2: "Hats off, Gentlemen!
(Lehár'sDie lustige Witwe) has met with great critical acclaim as have her recital discs of Lieder by Richard Strauss,W.A. Mozart, Wolf,Felix Mendelssohnand Schubert, all accompanied by the late Geoffrey Parsons. In addition there are complete recordings ofW.A. Mozart'sLe Nozze di Figaro,...
Mozart to Felix Mendelssohn, she also embraces the music of their lesser-known contemporaries such as Myslivecek and Abel. She has explored the music of Paganini and Viotti and has recorded most of the music of the great Baroque tradition, from the earliest Italian violin music of Cima, to ...
After visiting Berlin, Germany, where Chopin was exposed to the music of George Frederick Handel (1685–1759) and Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847), Chopin returned to Warsaw and heard Nicolò Paganini (1782–1840). Chopin recognized that he must leave Warsaw for exposure to other musicians. He ...
he has made numerous CD's devoted to Mozart,Felix Mendelssohn, Christmas music and made recordings on various historic organs in Italy and abroad. He recently performed in concert and released two CD's for the inauguration of the new "Oberlinger" organ of the dell’Aula Magna dell’Università...
Johann Sebastian Bach, composer of the Baroque era and member of a large family of north German musicians. He was later regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time, celebrated for such pieces as the Brandenburg Concertos and The Well-Tempered C