Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy was born on 14 November 1805. She was taught to play the piano by her mother, who in turn had been taught by a student of J.S. Bach’s. In 1820 she and her brother Felix ...

Listen to the opening of Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet, as played by Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and friends on the irresistible recording they made in 1961 at the old Elvis-haunted RCA studios ...

It's hard to imagine wedding music without the familiar strains of Mendelssohn's famous "Wedding March." The tune is so famous — opening with its regal blast of brass — that it seems like it's been ...

Brown's biography is a fairly bland account of Mendelssohn's life and of his works, in which he usefully includes a number of biographical documents. On religious issues he offers a summary of the ...

In Aesthetic Realism, founded by Eli Siegel, a methodology exists through which biographers can understand the central ethical conflict in the life of every person: the fight between the desire to ...