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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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Festgesang (category Cantatas by Felix Mendelssohn)
    "Festgesang", also known as the "Gutenberg Cantata", was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in the first half of 1840 for performance in Leipzig at the celebrations...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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    on Words of the Holy Bible for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra" by Felix Mendelssohn. After the composer's death it was published as his Symphony No. 2...
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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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    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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  • 13, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1827. Written when he was 18 years old, it was, despite its official number, Mendelssohn's first mature string...
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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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  • overture that was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830, revised in 1832, and published the next year as Mendelssohn's Op. 26. Some consider it an early...
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