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Felix Mendelssohn
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent (1809-1847)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 3 February 1809, 1809
- Died
- 4 November 1847, 1847
- Place of birth
- Hamburg
- Place of death
- Leipzig
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Mendelssohn, Bartholdy
- Movement
- Romantic music
- Genre
- opera, classical music, symphonic music
- Occupation
- composer, pianist, organist, conductor, musicologist, music educator, university teacher, painter, writer, musician
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Saxony, Hamburg
- Religion
- Lutheranism, reformed
- archives at
- University of Leeds Libraries, Library of Congress Music Division, Q28737995, Berlin State Library, Q28738401
- cause of death
- stroke
- described by source
- Hamburg Biographies, Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron, Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, A Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 1900, Riemann's Music Dictionary, BEIC Digital Library, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1926–1947), Library of the World's Best Literature, Berühmte Klavierspieler der Vergangenheit und Gegenwart
- documentation files at
- SAPA Foundation, Swiss Archive of the Performing Arts
- educated at
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- end of work period
- 1843
- family
- Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- has works in the collection
- Procuratoria di San Marco musical archive
- interested in
- linguistics, philology, philosophy
- IPA transcription
- ˈjaːkɔp ˈluːtvɪç ˈfeːlɪks ˈmɛndl̩szoːn baʁˈtɔldi
- list of works
- Mendelssohn Works, list of compositions by Felix Mendelssohn
- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- notable work
- A Midsummer Night's Dream, Symphony No. 3, Symphony No. 4, Violin Concerto in E minor, The Hebrides, St. Paul, Elijah
- number of children
- 5
- place of burial
- cemeteries at Hallesches Tor
- related category
- Category:Compositions by Felix Mendelssohn
- start of work period
- 1826
- student
- Charles Edward Horsley, Camille-Marie Stamaty, Hildur Sommerfeldt, Eduard Franck, Carl Reinecke, Gustav Nottebohm, Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski
- student of
- Carl Friedrich Zelter, Ludwig Berger, Marie Bigot, Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Franz Lauska, Ignaz Moscheles
- topic's main category
- Category:Felix Mendelssohn
Connected on Wikidata
Author of
- Symphony No. 3
- Symphony No. 4
- Elijah, Op. 70
- Hymn of Praise
- Octet for Strings in E-flat Major, Op. 20
- String Octet in E Flat Major
- Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64
- On wings of song
- Cast Thy burden upon the Lord = Bwrw dy faich ar yr Arglwydd Dduw [o 'Elias' Mendelssohn; cyfieithiad Cymraeg gan T. H. Parry-Williams]
- On wings of song
- Fy Nuw, rho drugaredd = O God, have mercy : Sant Paul
- It is enough = Digon yw hyn : Eleias
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