It had long been a custom with the Mendelssohn family to give musical performances on alternate Sunday mornings in their dining-room, with a small orchestra, which Felix always conducted, even when he was not tall enough to be seen without standing upon a stool. For each of these occasions ...
Mendelssohn was an extemelyprecociousmusical composer. He wrote numerouscompositionsduring his boyhood, among them 5operas, 11symphoniesforstring orchestra,concerti,sonatas, andfugues. Most of these works were long preserved in manuscript in the Prussian State Library in Berlin but are believed to have...