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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    The Fanny & Felix Mendelssohn Museum is a museum in the Composers Quarter in the Neustadt district of Hamburg, Germany. It is dedicated to the classical...
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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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    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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    (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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. The Foundation awards the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Prize once a year per competition opened to particularly...
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  • The Mendelssohn-Werkverzeichnis (MWV) (German for Mendelssohn Work Index) is the first modern fully researched music catalogue of the works of Felix Mendelssohn...
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    Mendelssohn House is a museum in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany. The composer Felix Mendelssohn lived here from 1845 until his death in 1847; it now contains...
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    help. The String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1847. It was the last major piece he completed before he died two...
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    is a collection of six part songs for four voices a cappella by Felix Mendelssohn. He composed the songs between 1837 and 1843, setting six poems in...
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    1837 by Felix Mendelssohn and premiered at the Birmingham Festival on 21 September that year, an event that also saw the premiere of Mendelssohn's oratorio...
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    Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen (category Motets by Felix Mendelssohn)
    cappella by Felix Mendelssohn. He wrote it in 1844 for the Berlin Cathedral, setting verses 11 and 12 from Psalm 91. Later, Mendelssohn made the motet...
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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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  • composer Felix Mendelssohn, and are awarded to promising young musicians to enable them to continue their development. Shortly after Mendelssohn's death...
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  • "Auf Flügeln des Gesanges"), Op. 34, No. 2, MWV K 86, is a piece by Felix Mendelssohn, the second of his "six songs for voice and piano" (Opus 34-2, 1834)...
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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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  • Colonus (German: Ödipus in Kolonos), Op. 93 is incidental music by Felix Mendelssohn to Sophocles' play Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) consisting of an orchestral...
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  • beschlagnahmten Kunstsammlung von Felix und Marie Busch, geb. von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy [...] | Proveana". www.proveana.de. Retrieved 2021-11-09. "German...
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    Wer bis an das Ende beharrt (category Motets by Felix Mendelssohn)
    motet for a four-part choir by Felix Mendelssohn. He wrote it as part of his oratorio Elijah, published in 1847. Mendelssohn composed the motet with orchestral...
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    E-flat major (MWV Q15) is a composition for clarinet and piano by Felix Mendelssohn. What little information is available about the history of the work...
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    The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation is a not-for-profit independent foundation governed according to civil law. It is based in the Mendelssohn House...
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    St. Paul (in German Paulus), Op. 36, is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn. The composer oversaw versions and performances in both German and English within...
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    Overture to the Legend of the Fair Melusine) is a concert overture by Felix Mendelssohn written in 1834. It is generally referred to as Die schöne Melusine...
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