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    Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist...
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    composers Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter. Her younger brother Felix Mendelssohn, also a composer and pianist, shared the same education and the two...
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    This is a list of compositions by Felix Mendelssohn. (Note: the list includes works which were published posthumously and given opus numbers after the...
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    University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig (German: Hochschule für Musik und Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig) is a public...
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    adopt the surname Mendelssohn. The family includes his grandchildren, the composers Fanny Mendelssohn and Felix. Moses Mendelssohn was a significant figure...
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    and Felix Mendelssohn; Felix's son, chemist Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy; Fanny's grandsons, Paul and Kurt Hensel; and the founders of the Mendelssohn & Co...
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    Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64, MWV O 14, is his last concerto. Well received at its premiere, it has remained among the most...
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    Wedding March Problems playing this file? See media help. Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major, written in 1842, is one of the best known of...
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    Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born Paul Felix Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy; 18 January 1841, Leipzig – 17 February 1880, Berlin) was a German chemist and...
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    the Italian, is an orchestral symphony written by German composer Felix Mendelssohn. The work has its origins, as had the composer's Scottish 3rd Symphony...
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    philanthropist. He was the father of Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Rebecka Mendelssohn, and Paul Mendelssohn. Mendelssohn was born and died in Berlin. The...
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  • On two occasions, Felix Mendelssohn composed music for William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream (in German Ein Sommernachtstraum). First in...
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    in E-flat major, Op. 20, MWV R 20, was written by the 16-year-old Felix Mendelssohn during the fall of 1825 and completed on October 15. Written for four...
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    northern Europe during the 1840s, and was closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn. After two acclaimed seasons in London, she announced her retirement...
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    Elijah (German: Elias), Op. 70, MWV A 25, is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn depicting events in the life of the Prophet Elijah as told in the books...
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  • of Fanny and Felix Brendel Mendelssohn (1763–1839), daughter of Moses, married (i) Simon Veit, (ii) Friedrich Schlegel Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847),...
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    and later at Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendelssohn as professor of piano in the Conservatory. Moscheles was born 1794...
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  • composer, Felix Mendelssohn. The choir comprises 160 voices, among them a professional core of 24 singers known as the Toronto Mendelssohn Singers, who...
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  • piano works by the Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn written between 1829 and 1845. His sister, Fanny Mendelssohn, and other composers also wrote pieces...
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    Sebastian Bach (1723 to 1750) and Felix Mendelssohn (1835 to 1847). The University of Music and Theatre "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" was founded in 1843...
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    18, known as the Scottish, is a symphony by Felix Mendelssohn, composed between 1829 and 1842. Mendelssohn was initially inspired to compose this symphony...
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    "CD Review Felix Mendelssohn Works for Piano & Orchestra". Classical Net. "Mendelssohn Piano Concertos 1 & 2". Gramophone. "Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos...
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    major/D minor, Op. 107, known as the Reformation, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830 in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the...
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  • Felix Mendelssohn's Hawaiian Serenaders was a popular Hawaiian music band started by British frontman Bartholdy Felix Mendelssohn (19 September 1911 –...
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    Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy and mother of the composer Fanny Hensel, the composer Felix Mendelssohn, the singer and salonnière Rebeckah Mendelssohn Dirichlet...
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    Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (category Choral compositions by Felix Mendelssohn)
    Methodism, with music adapted from "Vaterland, in deinen Gauen" of Felix Mendelssohn's cantata Festgesang (Gutenberg Cantata). Wesley had written the original...
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  • Italien. Suleika und Hatem. Felix Mendelssohn's Op. 9, Zwölf Lieder, was published in 1830. These Lieder by Fanny Mendelssohn are contained in the volume:...
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  • Program music is a term applied to any musical composition on the classical music tradition in which the piece is designed according to some preconceived...
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    (Grant us peace) is a chorale cantata by Felix Mendelssohn, setting a prayer for peace by Martin Luther. Mendelssohn composed the short work in one movement...
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    703. Mendelssohn: String quartet Op. 13 third movement by the Carmel Quartet Problems playing this file? See media help. Unlike Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn...
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