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...
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 to musical composition with fresh romantic harmonies and expressiveness.
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,...
Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. a Social and Artistic Biography 作者: Polko, Elise 出版社: General Books出版年: 2010-3页数: 110定价: $ 22.63装帧: 平装ISBN: 9781154949254豆瓣评分 目前无人评价 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到 ...
Chailly has an exclusive recording contract with Decca, and his recordings with Decca include complete cycles of the symphonies of Gustav Mahler and Anton Bruckner. More recently, with the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Chailly has led recordings of Felix Mendelssohn, Johannes Brahms, and the Robert Schumann ...
Christiane Schmidt. Self: Encountering BACH. Christiane Schmidt is a historian at Mendelssohn-Haus Leipzig. The house contains the last (and only surviving) private residence of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The Mendelssohn House now houses a
Mendelssohn : A Life in Music An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best r... RL Todd - Oxford Universit...
his foreign success. He was a friend of singer Jenny Lind; novelist Charles Dickens; and composers Franz Liszt, Robert Schumann, and Felix Mendelssohn. He was welcomed as a guest anywhere. Although he was considered eccentric, he was a genuine poet with the sensitive understanding of the ...
label include works byJ.S. Bachand concertos byS. Rachmaninov,F. LisztandFelix Mendelssohn. His most recent CD release is a recording of Komitas songs with soprano Hasmik Papian, on the Audite label in September 2006. Several of these recordings have received awards from the international press....
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!