Felix Mendelssohn
Composer
Silicon Valley Symphony to end season with 'From the New World'"From the New World" also includes Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, and Ravel's Pavane for a Dead Princess, as well as such popular pieces as "Meditation" from Massenet's opera Tha s and Mendelssohn's The Hebrides Overture, Op. 26... In this article: From the New World, Felix Mendelssohn, Antonin Dvorak, Jules Massenet, Stanford University, Hector Berlioz, and San Francisco Symphony |
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Wikipedia | November 05, 2009
Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst
...his time and Paganini's greatest successor. Not only did he contribute to polyphonic playing, but he also discovered new idiomatic ways to compose polyphonically conceived violin music. His friends included Hector Berlioz and Felix Mendelssohn.
In this article: Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst, Niccolo Paganini, Marseille, Brno, Vienna, Neuralgia, Joseph Bohm, Ignaz von Seyfried, and England
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Romantic music
...small "characteristic" piano forms and dances. Early Romantic composers of a slightly later generation included Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Frederic Chopin, and Hector Berlioz. All were born in the 19th century, and produced works...
In this article: Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Nationalism, Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz, Franz Schubert, Frederic Chopin, and J. S. Bach
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New Yorker: Arts & Culture | February 15, 2009
Alex Ross: Mendelssohn at two hundred.
...something like a guest national composer. But there were mutterings of discontent. Hector Berlioz complained that Mendelssohn was "rather too fond of the dead. " Heinrich Heine mocked his "very serious seriousness," saying that the music lacked...
In this article: Richard Wagner, Carl Zelter, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Fanny Hensel
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Ophicleide
The bass ophicleide was first scored for in the opera Olimpie by Gaspare Spontini in 1819. Other famous works which employ it include Felix Mendelssohn's Elias '' and ''Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream (originally scored for English Bass...
In this article: Adolphe Sax, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Olimpie, Hector Berlioz, and Gaspare Spontini
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Saltarello
...is attributed to Vincenzo Galilei, written in the 16th century Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy used the Saltarello for the 4. movement of his Symphony No.4 "Italian" Berlioz used the Saltarello in the Carnival scene of Benvenuto Cellini...
In this article: Carnival, Dead Can Dance, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Italian Symphony, Angelo Branduardi, Benvenuto Cellini, Vincenzo Galilei, Hector Berlioz, and John Renbourn
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PR Newswire: All Releases | February 20, 2009
Rediscovering Mendelssohn - 2009 Marks 200th Birthday of Composer Who Fell Out of Favor for Nearly a Century
...- "Elijah" and " St. Paul In addition to a "gold mine" of music, Cooper says Mendelssohn left behind a wealth of correspondence, dating from when he was six years old to his death at age 38. "Mendelssohn was a major figure in...
In this article: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, St. Petersburg Conservatory, Ignaz Moscheles, Christianity, Cadre, A Midsummer Night's Dream, World War II, and Queen Victoria
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Richard Hol
...at Utrecht . His conservative music showed the influence of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann and the Leipzig school, though as a conductor he offered Dutch audiences the modern music of Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner. Richard Hol...
In this article: Utrecht, Amsterdam, Johannes Verhulst, Hector Berlioz, Robert Schumann, and Richard Wagner
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The Carnival of the Animals
...sylphes played in a much lower register than usual as a double bass solo. The piece briefly quotes the Scherzo from Felix Mendelssohn's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." It is heard at the end of the bridge section. ' quotes Saint-Saens' own '...
In this article: Camille Saint-Saens, Carnival of the Animals, Peter and the Wolf, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Daffy Duck, Ogden Nash, and Hector Berlioz
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Ignaz Moscheles
Force of habit, probably.'' It thus fell to Moscheles to lead the counter-attack on Wagner after the latter's snide attack on Mendelssohn (and Meyerbeer) in his notorious article Das Judenthum in der Musik ("Jewry in Music"), which...
In this article: Ignaz Moscheles, London, George Smart, Leipzig, Johann Baptist Cramer, and Muzio Clementi
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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
The grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, he was born to a notable Jewish family which later converted to Christianity. He was recognized early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalise on his abilities. Indeed his father was disinclined to allow Felix to follow a musical career until it became clear that he intended to seriously dedicate himself to it.
Early success in Germany was followed by travel throughout Europe; Mendelssohn was particularly well received in England as a composer, conductor and soloist, and his ten visits there, during which many of his major works were premiered, form an important part of his adult career. His essentially conservative musical tastes however set him apart from many of his more adventurous musical contemporaries such as Liszt, Wagner and Berlioz. The Conservatoire he founded at Leipzig became a bastion of this anti-radical outlook.
- Birth Date:
- February 03, 1809
- Birthplace:
- Hamburg
- Death Date:
- November 04, 1847
- Place of Death:
- Leipzig
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