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 ...

The beauty of the composer’s piano trios is renewed in the hands of three virtuosos.

The beauty of the composer’s piano trios is renewed in the hands of three virtuosos. By Edward Docx There is a wonderful and definitive new album of the two Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) piano trios ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...