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	CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Mendelssohn Biography
		Felix Mendelssohn has sometimes been called the "classical romantic." Born in 1809 in the first generation of romantic composers, Mendelssohn's music is the most conservative of the group.
		There is an objective clarity to Mendelssohn's harmony and a classical symmetry to his melodic phrasing that is quite different from the revolutionary chromatic explorations and outbursts of Chopin even in shorter pieces such as the "Preludes", or the enigmatic irregularities of Schumanns highly personal style in his sets of character pieces for the piano.
		In Leipzig, Mendelssohn became married to Cecile Jeanrendaud, daughter of a clergyman of the French Reformed Church.
	www.classicalarchives.com /bios/mendelssohn_bio.html (1392 words)

	Moses Mendelssohn - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		MOSES MENDELSSOHN (1729-1786), Jewish philosopher, was born in Dessau in 1729.
		Mendelssohn added a new section to this chapter by his German translation of the Pentateuch and other parts of the Bible.
		Much general comment on Moses Mendelssohn appeared in the press of the world on occasion of the centenary of the birth of the composer Mendelssohn in 1909.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Moses_Mendelssohn (1523 words)

	Felix Mendelssohn Summary
		Felix Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg on Feb. 3, 1809, the son of Abraham and Leah Mendelssohn and the grandson of the famous Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
		Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, the son of a banker, Abraham, who was himself the son of the famous Jewish philosopher, Moses Mendelssohn, and of Lea Salomon, a member of the Itzig family.
		Mendelssohn is buried in the Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof (Trinity Cemetery) I in Berlin-Kreuzberg.
	www.bookrags.com /Felix_Mendelssohn (4754 words)

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		Mendelssohn's reputation in England was truly great, and the composer developed a sincere affection for the British public, which was reciprocated by his audiences in London.
		Mendelssohn undertook to erect such a monument out of his own means, and he resolved in addition to make the rising generation of musicians more familiar with the works of the immortal master.
		Mendelssohn performed the fugue in E flat, the fantasia on the choral, Adorn Thyself, the prelude and fugue in A minor, the Passacaglia in C minor, with it's twenty variations, and he closed with a free fantasia on the choral, O, Sacred Head Now Wounded.
	www.lycos.com /info/mendelssohn--works.html (641 words)

	Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
		Mendelssohn was truly fortunate to have been born in Hamburg, on February 3, 1809, as the son of Lea Salomon and Abraham Mendelssohn, a wealthy banker.
		Mendelssohn visited Great Britain ten times during his short lifetime, and he was on close terms with Queen Victoria, who viewed him, not only as a personal friend, but also as one of her favorite composers.
		Mendelssohn gave much thought to how the academic structure of the conservatory should be arranged, and his resulting division of the curriculum into several distinct learning areas became the model for modern conservatories.
	www.carolinaclassical.com /mendelssohn/index.html (2461 words)

	FACILITY & MASTERY: FELIX MENDELSSOHN by Jeffrey Dane (Site not responding. Last check: )
		If Felix Mendelssohn's position in the history of music is not as astral as that of other composers, he's still a central figure of his era and occupies an important place in the palace of his predecessors and peers.
		If Mendelssohn was born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he, unlike most children of the wealthy, made it a golden opportunity where posterity benefitted by his diligence and creativity.
		As a musician generally and as a conductor specifically, Mendelssohn had the ability to influence the players under him with his taste and wisdom, and the charm and delicacy of his personality, and to inspire them in performance by his special magnetism and personal enthusiasm.
	people.cs.uchicago.edu /~ravikant/hw4/mendelssohn.html (2114 words)

	Mendelssohn - MSN Encarta
		Mendelssohn first appeared in public as a pianist at the age of 9 and performed his first original compositions when 11 years old.
		Mendelssohn appeared as a pianist and conductor throughout Europe, making frequent trips to England.
		In spite of an enormously strenuous schedule as pianist, conductor, and teacher, Mendelssohn was a prolific composer.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761551623/Mendelssohn_Felix.html (430 words)

	- Classical Music Dictionary - Free MP3
		Mendelssohn was a child prodigy and made his first public appearance as a pianist when he was only nine.
		Mendelssohn’s concert overtures include the 1826 Overture, A Midsummer Night's Dream, a work in many ways typical of the composer's deftness of touch in its evocation of the fairy world of the play for which he later wrote incidental music.
		Mendelssohn wrote his first chamber music at the age of ten: one of the most delightful works is the Octet, for double string quartet, written to celebrate the 23rd birthday of a violinist friend in 1825.
	www.karadar.com /Dictionary/mendelssohn.html (1051 words)

	Felix Mendelssohn Biography Pt.2
		In 1832, Mendelssohn married Cécile Jeanrenaud, the daughter of a Protestant clergyman.
		Over the years that followed, Mendelssohn was very prolific, and in addition to numerous composition, he gave several successful performances of his work, and that of other great composers.
		Mendelssohn composed several works for the piano, which was highly popular at the time; but he also wrote for many different combinations of instruments and voices.
	www.felixmendelssohn.com /felix_mendelssohn_bio_002.htm (425 words)

	Moses Mendelssohn (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
		Mendelssohn's "On Evidence in Metaphysical Sciences" (the so-called Prize Essay) garnered first prize in the contest staged by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences on the question of whether metaphysical truths are able to have the same sort of evidence as mathematical truths.
		Mendelssohn acknowledges that, despite the fact that the method is the same and the content in each case (mathematics and metaphysics) is an intrinsic character of things, progress in metaphysics has lagged far behind that in mathematics.
		Mendelssohn supports the notion that the soul is simple and thus indestructible by noting that certain features of the soul, namely, the unifying character of consciousness and the identity of self-consciousness, cannot be derived from anything composite, whether those composite parts be capable or not of thinking.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/mendelssohn (6292 words)

	Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia - History
		Mendelssohn Club was founded in 1874 by William Wallace Gilchrist (1846-1916), one of the leading musical figures in nineteenth century Philadelphia.
		Mendelssohn Club appeared with the Orchestra in Bernstein's Chichester Psalms, Beethoven's Choral Fantasy, the Verdi Requiem, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky, Schoenberg's Survivor from Warsaw and Mahler's Second and Third Symphonies with such conductors as Ormandy, Abbado, Mehta, Rostropovich and Rozhdestvenksy on the podium.
		Mendelssohn Club was invited to participate in a concert celebrating the 125th Anniversary of Philadelphia's Chinatown in 1996 and in the gala Hear O Israel celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Israel in 1998 with the combined Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch and Israel Philharmonic under Zubin Mehta.
	www.mcchorus.org /history.htm (1571 words)

	Reviews: Mendelssohn CD
		Mendelssohn's complete cello works are often played---indeed they form part of the core of the cello repertoire.
		It was Mendelssohn whom the music historians recognize as the first composer who took the cello as a proper solo instrument.
		Mendelssohn structured it in three parts, the first and third part being of a most tranquil nature, while the middle part is more emotionally intense.
	www.geocities.com /jameskreger/reviews/mendelssohn (3415 words)

	VIP Records: Mendelssohn and Schubert- Symphonic Favorites
		Mendelssohn's music clearly depicts the surging power of the surf rushing in and out of the cave as well as the colossal size of the powerful columns of rock.
		Mendelssohn was appointed the director of the Dusseldorf music academy in 1833, and composed many sacred works for the local chorus and orchestra.
		Mendelssohn's "Reformation Symphony" was one of his last recordings with the Paris Conservatory orchestra, before he departed for America to accept the music director's post at the Boston Symphony.
	www.vintageip.com /records/vipcl1007.html (2509 words)

	Essentials of Music - Composers
		Mendelssohn was an important figure in the revival of the music of Johann Sebastian Bach in the nineteenth century.
		The Mendelssohn household was one of the cultural centers of Berlin.
		Mendelssohn's music is the most classically oriented of all his generation.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /composer/mendelssohn.html (584 words)

	Moses Mendelssohn
		Moses Mendelssohn was born in 1729 and died in 1786.
		Therefore, Mendelssohn was most concerned in distancing himself from Spinoza, as shown by the famous controversy which erupted after the death of Mendelssohn's friend Lessing who was posthumously identified as a Spinozist, a label Mendelssohn would not accept either for himself or for Lessing.
		Mendelssohn argued that Jews, born to accept the Law, did not have the authority to abrogate it and that therefore rabbinic law was also revealed and permanent.
	www.jbuff.com /c020801.htm (1300 words)

	Felix Mendelssohn - an overview of the classical composer
		Mendelssohn toured Europe visiting a number of countries where he sketched musical fragments later to be turned into concert works, which is why a number of his works bear titles suggesting these countries.
		Mendelssohn himself wrote some fugues and, like Mozart and Beethoven, was to incorporate fugal material into other works.
		Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words for piano were also a novel form and underlined his belief that music need not be programmatic, though publishers were to add suggestive titles to these works.
	www.mfiles.co.uk /composers/Felix-Mendelssohn.htm (642 words)

	Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto
		In 1836, Mendelssohn was appointed conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and asked that David be chosen as leader, or concertmaster.
		Mendelssohn soon began thinking of writing a concerto to showcase the talents of his friend.
		It is worth listening carefully for the especially luminous point where Mendelssohn takes the idea of simplification to the limit (foreshadowing Mahler's chamber-like style) by reducing the instrumentation to a simple clarinet-and-flute melody while the soloist holds an endless note on the lowest string.
	fmg-www.cs.ucla.edu /fmg-members/geoff/prognotes/mendelssohn/violinCon.html (661 words)

	Felix Mendelssohn, Composer - The Michael O'Neal Singers
		Born to Abraham Mendelssohn, a well-to-do Jewish banker and intellectual in Berlin, Mendelssohn is frequently referred to as Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
		Mendelssohn saw this as a great mistake of the times, and in 1829 he conducted the Berlin Singakademie in a performance of Bach's St.
		Mendelssohn's work ethic produced a great strain on him, and the last several years of his life were marked by deteriorating health.
	www.mosingers.com /composers/mendelssohn.html (570 words)

	Felix Mendelssohn
		A period of travel and concert-giving introduced Mendelssohn to England, Scotland (1829) and Italy (1830-31); after return visits to Paris (1831) and London (1832, 1833) he took up a conducting post at Düsseldorf (1833-5), concentrating on Handel's oratorios.
		Paul being an allegory of Mendelssohn's own family history and Elijah of his years of dissension in Berlin.
		After an apprenticeship of string symphony writing in a classical mould, Mendelssohn found inspiration in art, nature and history for his orchestral music.
	w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de /cmp/mendelssohn.html (585 words)

	Die Internationale Mendelssohn-Stiftung e.V. in Leipzig
		The house in Leipzig, 12 Goldschmidtstraße, has been preserved as the last and sole private residence of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
		Built in 1844, in the style of Late Classicism the house is an important witness of its time and it preserves much of the original building and information about its most prominent occupier who lived with his family on the 1st floor beginning in 1845 and died here November 4 in 1847.
		Today, Mendelssohn's flat is a museum in honour of this brilliant German composer, virtuoso and conductor who was also a very good painter and active in the field of cultural and educational policy.
	www.mendelssohn-stiftung.de /ims (216 words)

	Felix Mendelssohn (Site not responding. Last check: )
		elix Mendelssohn is regarded by classical music aficionados and critics alike, as one of the most prolific and gifted composers the world has ever known.
		Whether he was born with his incredible talent or was the product of an artistically and intellectually-inclined family will remain a mystery, but like all prodigies, Mendelssohn showed signs of true genius from childhood.
		Regarded by some critics as the 19th century equivalent of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and others as a great composer who's contribution would have been greater, had his life been marred with more hardships, everyone should agree that he deserves his place amongst the best, and most influential.
	www.felixmendelssohn.com (137 words)

	Felix Mendelssohn
		Mendelssohn was one of the best loved composers of the 19th century, particularly in Victorian England, and he was certainly the most successful.
		His career showed none of the reverses, disappointments and delays that were the rule for the other great Romantic composers; indeed, it was the overwork and exhaustion to meet the demands for his performances and compositions that led to his early death at the age of 38.
		Mendelssohn won a short hiatus from his accumulating duties when he took a leave of absence from his post at the Gewandhaus during the 1844-45 season.
	www.balletmet.org /Notes/Mendelssohn.html (605 words)

	Mendelssohn
		The grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729-86), Felix Mendelssohn was afforded a rich artistic and intellectual education during his formative years.
		In 1835, Mendelssohn left Düsseldorf and relocated to Leipzig where he was employed as the director of the Gewandhaus Orchestra.
		Mendelssohn did manage to find time for a personal life, however, marrying Cécile Jeanrenaud in 1837.
	www.musica.co.uk /composers/Mendelssohn.htm (617 words)

	Moses Mendelssohn
		Moses Mendelssohn was born in Dessau, a city in the state of Anhalt-Dessau in Germany, on September 6, 1729.
		In 1750, Mendelssohn began to serve as a teacher in the house of Isaac Bernhard, the owner of a silk factory.
		Mendelssohn modeled his philosophy after that of Christian Wolff (a prominent philosopher of the Enlightenment) and Gottfried Leibnitz (a European rationalist).
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/Mendelssohn.html (727 words)

	Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center - Rockford Illinois' Home for Choral, Symphony, and Music and Entertainment of all ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mendelssohn PAC provides quality music for all people of the Rockford area through live performances by local and world renowned artists.
		Founded in 1975, The Mendelssohn Chorale, under the direction of Martha Bein, is composed of lovers of chorale music from the greater Rockford area.
		The Mendelssohn Chorale is pleased to join the Rockford Symphony Orchestra as part of their 2005-2006 season.
	www.mendelssohnclub.org /about.asp (640 words)

	Felix Mendelssohn biography
		Felix Mendelssohn, grandson of the distinguished Jewish thinker Moses Mendelssohn, the additional surname Bartholdy adopted on his conversion to Christianity, was born in Hamburg, the son of a banker.
		The concert overtures of Mendelssohn include the 1826 Overture, A Midsummer Night's Dream, a work in many ways typical of the composer's deftness of touch in its evocation of the fairy world of the play for which he later wrote incidental music.
		The 19th century was the age of the piano, a period in which the instrument, newly developed, became an essential item of household furniture and the centre of domestic music-making.
	www.kunstderfuge.com /bios/mendelssohn.html (973 words)

	Great Performances . Educational Resources . Composer Biographies . Felix Mendelssohn \| PBS
		A period of travel and concert-giving introduced Mendelssohn to England, Scotland (1829) and Italy (1830-31); after return visits to Paris (1831) and London (1832, 1833) he took up a conducting post at Düsseldorf (1833-5), concentrating on Handel's oratorios.
		Always a warm friend and valued colleague, he was devoted to his family; his death at the age of 38, after a series of strokes, was mourned internationally.
		Among his other vocal works, the highly dramatic "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" op.60 (on Goethe's poem greeting springtime) and the Leipzig psalm settings deserve special mention; the choral songs and lieder are uneven, reflecting their wide variety of social functions.
	www.pbs.org /wnet/gperf/education/mendelssohn.html (513 words)

	Mendelssohn Performing Arts Center (Site not responding. Last check: )
		For over a century, Mendelssohn has been a source of musical leadership for residents of Northern Illinois, through live performances by local and world-renowned artists.
		Mendelssohn Performing Artists (local and regional musicians) participate in the Mendelssohn Chamber Orchestra, Mendelssohn Chorale, operas and performing artist series concerts.
		The Mendelssohn Center is an extraordinary haven for music and musicians.
	www.mendelssohnclub.org /shows.asp (186 words)

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