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Felix Mendelssohn - Wikipedia. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (German. He was brought up without religion until the age of seven, when he was baptised as a Reformed.
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Christian. Mendelssohn was recognised early as a musical prodigy, but his parents were cautious and did not seek to capitalise on his talent. Mendelssohn enjoyed early success in Germany, where he also revived interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and in his travels throughout Europe. He was particularly well received in Britain 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 Franz Liszt, Richard Wagner, Charles- Valentin Alkan and Hector Berlioz.
The Leipzig Conservatoire (now the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig), which he founded, became a bastion of this anti- radical outlook. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concerti, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His best- known works include his Overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the overture The Hebrides, his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism in the late 1.
He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic era. Childhood. Mendelssohn's father was the banker Abraham Mendelssohn, the son of the German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.
His mother was Lea Salomon, a member of the Itzig family and a sister of Jakob Salomon Bartholdy. Mendelssohn was the second of four children; his older sister Fanny also displayed exceptional and precocious musical talent. The family moved to Berlin in 1. Hamburg in disguise fearing French revenge for the Mendelssohn bank's role in breaking Napoleon's Continental System blockade. Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn sought to give their children – Fanny, Felix, Paul and Rebecka – the best education possible. Fanny became a well- known pianist and amateur composer; originally Abraham had thought that she, rather than Felix, would be the more musical.
However, at that time, it was not considered proper, by either Abraham or Felix, for a woman to have a career in music, so Fanny remained an active but non- professional musician. Abraham was also disinclined to allow Felix to follow a musical career until it became clear that he seriously intended to dedicate himself to it. Mendelssohn grew up in an intellectual environment. Frequent visitors to the salon organised by his parents at the family's home in Berlin included artists, musicians and scientists, amongst them Wilhelm and Alexander von Humboldt, and the mathematician Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (whom Mendelssohn's sister Rebecka would later marry). Sarah Rothenburg wrote of the household that . Felix and his siblings were first brought up without religious education, and were baptised by a Reformed Church minister in 1.
Felix was given the additional names Jakob Ludwig. Abraham and his wife Lea were themselves baptised in 1. Mendelssohn Bartholdy (which they had used since 1. The name Bartholdy was added at the suggestion of Lea's brother, Jakob Salomon Bartholdy, who had inherited a property of this name in Luisenstadt and adopted it as his own surname. In an 1. 82. 9 letter to Felix, Abraham explained that adopting the Bartholdy name was meant to demonstrate a decisive break with the traditions of his father Moses: .
In 1. 82. 9, his sister Fanny wrote to him of . He began taking piano lessons from his mother when he was six, and at seven was tutored by Marie Bigot in Paris.
After the family moved to Berlin, all four Mendelssohn children studied piano with Ludwig Berger, who was himself a former student of Muzio Clementi. From at least May 1. Felix (and his sister Fanny) studied counterpoint and composition with Carl Friedrich Zelter in Berlin. This was an important influence on his future career. Zelter had almost certainly been recommended as a teacher by his aunt Sarah Levy, who had been a pupil of W. Bach and a patron of C. Sarah Levy was a talented keyboard player in her own right, often playing with Zelter's orchestra at the Sing- Akademie zu Berlin, of which she and the Mendelssohn family were leading patrons.
Sarah had formed an important collection of Bach family manuscripts which she bequeathed to the Singakademie; Zelter, whose tastes in music were conservative, was also an admirer of the Bach tradition. This undoubtedly played a significant part in forming Felix Mendelssohn's musical tastes.
His works show his study of Baroque and early classical music. His fugues and chorales especially reflect a tonal clarity and use of counterpoint reminiscent of Johann Sebastian Bach, by whose music he was deeply influenced. Early maturity. He was also a prolific composer from an early age. As an adolescent, his works were often performed at home with a private orchestra for the associates of his wealthy parents amongst the intellectual elite of Berlin.
Between the ages of 1. Mendelssohn wrote 1. These works were ignored for over a century, but are now recorded and occasionally played in concerts.
He wrote his first published work, a piano quartet, by the time he was 1. It was probably Abraham Mendelssohn who procured the publication of Mendelssohn's early piano quartet by the house of Schlesinger. In 1. 82. 4, the 1.
C minor, Op. 1. 1). At age 1. 6 Mendelssohn wrote his String Octet in E- flat major, the first work which showed the full power of his genius. Moscheles became a close colleague and lifelong friend. The year 1. 82. 7 saw the premiere – and sole performance in his lifetime – of Mendelssohn's opera, Die Hochzeit des Camacho. The failure of this production left him disinclined to venture into the genre again. Besides music, Mendelssohn's education included art, literature, languages, and philosophy. He had a particular interest in classical literature and translated Terence's Andria for his tutor Heyse in 1.
Heyse was impressed and had it published in 1. This translation also qualified Mendelssohn to study at the Humboldt University of Berlin, where from 1. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, on history by Eduard Gans and on geography by Carl Ritter. Meeting Goethe and conducting Bach. His other compositions inspired by Goethe include the overture Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, (Op. Die erste Walpurgisnacht (The First Walpurgis Night, Op.
In 1. 82. 9, with the backing of Zelter and the assistance of actor Eduard Devrient, Mendelssohn arranged and conducted a performance in Berlin of Bach's St Matthew Passion. Four years previously his grandmother, Bella Salomon, had given him a copy of the manuscript of this (by then all- but- forgotten) masterpiece. The success of this performance, one of the very few since Bach's death and the first ever outside of Leipzig. Bach's music in Germany and, eventually, throughout Europe. It earned Mendelssohn widespread acclaim at the age of 2.
It also led to one of the few references which Mendelssohn made to his origins: . These years proved the germination for some of his most famous works, including the Hebrides Overture and the Scottish and Italian symphonies.
However, at a vote in January 1. Carl Friedrich Rungenhagen. This may have been because of Mendelssohn's youth, and fear of possible innovations; it was also suspected by some to be attributable to his Jewish ancestry.
Following this rebuff, Mendelssohn divided most of his professional time over the next few years between Britain and D. This precipitated a Handel revival in Germany, similar to the reawakened interest in J. Bach following his performance of the St Matthew Passion. Mendelssohn worked with dramatist Karl Immermann to improve local theatre standards, and made his first appearance as an opera conductor in Immermann's production of Mozart's Don Giovanni at the end of 1. He had offers from both Munich and Leipzig for important musical posts, and decided in 1.
He chose this position although he had also been offered direction of the Munich Opera and the editorship of the prestigious music journal, the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. Thomas Church, and the city's other choral and musical institutions.
Mendelssohn's concerts included, in addition to many of his own works, three series of . He was deluged by offers of music from rising composers and would- be composers; amongst these was Richard Wagner, who submitted his early Symphony, which to Wagner's disgust Mendelssohn lost or mislaid. Mendelssohn also revived interest in Franz Schubert. Robert Schumann discovered the manuscript of Schubert's 9th Symphony and sent it to Mendelssohn, who promptly premiered it in Leipzig on 2. March 1. 83. 9, more than a decade after Schubert's death. Paul, given at the Lower Rhenish Festival in D. Paul seemed to many of Mendelssohn's contemporaries to be his finest work, and sealed his European reputation.
When Friedrich Wilhelm IV came to the Prussian throne in 1. Berlin as a cultural centre (including the establishment of a music school, and reform of music for the church), the obvious choice to head these reforms was Mendelssohn. He was however reluctant to undertake the task, especially in the light of his existing strong position in Leipzig. Mendelssohn did however spend some time in Berlin, writing some church music, and, at the King's request, music for productions of Sophocles's Antigone (1. Oedipus at Colonus (1.
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (1. Racine's Athalie (1. But the funds for the school never materialised, and various of the court's promises to Mendelssohn regarding finances, title, and concert programming were broken. He was therefore not displeased to have the excuse to return to Leipzig.