THERE are many people who make very little discrimination between one musician and another, — who discern no great gulf between Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer, between Rossini and Romberg, between Spohr ...

Of all the “non-Aryan” scapegoats of the Nazis, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847) led the musical list. The Third Reich outlawed the playing of Mendelssohn’s music, destroyed his statues and ...

The Mendelssohn-Remise, which preserves the legacy of the family of Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, as well as Jewish history in the German capital, could soon close. They were ...

Psalm 114 "When Israel went out of Egypt" for eight-voice chorus and orchestra, op. 51 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2018 for the 200th anniversary of the Lower Rhenish ...

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On March 11 1829, the great and the good of Prussia assembled at the Singakademie in Berlin to hear a wunderkind conduct an obscure work by a composer whose music some considered peripheral to the ...

I'll never forget the moment my ears were opened to Mendelssohn. The Emerson Quartet was playing at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London, and the last piece on the programme was Mendelssohn's Sixth ...

Though his musical genius is indisputable, Felix Mendelssohn wasn’t the only talent in his family. As his great-granddaughter Cécile reveals, the family was a gifted bunch... When Felix Mendelssohn ...

For Composer of the Week, Donald Macleod was given privileged access to Oxford's Mendelssohn archive, and found a composer blessed with artistic gifts which allowed him to chronicle his extraordinary ...