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

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 ...

This is a picture of a music stand which belonged to Fanny Mendelssohn, composer, sister of Felix Mendelssohn, and my great great great grandmother. It's quite surprising that it is still in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

An homage to a late violinist was followed by works by Strauss and Mendelssohn that let members of the orchestra shine. The Portland Symphony Orchestra paid tribute to its many members Sunday ...

The Binghamton Philharmonic Orchestra is presenting the second concert in its symphonic series that mixes old and new and a ...

This popular Christmas song would probably have been rejected by the composer and lyricist had they known it in its present form. Felix Mendelssohn originally wrote the melody for an 1840 cantata ...

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 ...