This biography of composer and pianist Felix Mendelssohn traces his development from musical child prodigy to a conductor whose influence as an advocate of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven is still felt to ...

In what will be a tour-de-force production, the Huntington Symphony Orchestra, the Huntington Symphony Choir and the Marshall ...

She was born into a musical family – her mother taught her to play the piano and her brother was the composer Felix Mendelssohn. Fanny was such a brilliant pianist that at the age of 13 she could play ...

We will perform this work in English. Mendelssohn, an early Romantic composer, wrote this oratorio in a compositional style influenced by his predecessors, Bach and Handel. For example ...

At Buckingham Palace in 1842, the German composer Felix Mendelssohn found himself confessing to piracy. Queen Victoria, a great admirer of his music, announced her intention to sing her favorite ...

Sebastian Hensel (1830–98), nephew of the composer, virtuoso pianist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn (1809–47), originally intended this work to be 'not only of the family but for the family', drawing ...