Felix Mendelssohn was still alive when the New York Philharmonic was founded in 1842. “He most certainly influenced our orchestra from its inception,” Philharmonic archivist Barbara Haws told the ...

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Felix Mendelssohn, the famed, wildly prolific 19th-century composer. But what about Fanny? This weekend, forgotten music written by Felix’s older sister Fanny ...

In our seemingly endless effort to categorize, quantify and qualify nearly everything, the question is often raised: "Who was the world's greatest classical music prodigy?" Mozart, Mendelssohn, ...

The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra performed in Princeton with Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey and Montclair State University's Prima Voce in a semi-staged production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" ...

"Easter Sonata" — a complex four-movement piano composition from 19th-century Germany — could only have been written by Felix Mendelssohn. Or so thought many of the archivists, scholars and musicians ...

“Mendelssohn, the Nazis and Me,” a recent DVD release from Kultur International Films, reproduces a 2009 BBC TV film by UK-born writer Sheila Hayman about her eminent ancestor, the composer Felix ...

Mercury Studios, the production company behind recent Abbey Road Studios doc “If These Walls Could Sing,” have unveiled their new feature, about composer Felix Mendelssohn’s genius sister Fanny.

The New York Philharmonic under Matthias Pintscher brought dramatic urgency to “Pelleas und Melisande” in commemoration of the composer’s 150th birthday. By Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim How can you get ...

Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn were born with golden spoons in their mouths, children of an arts-loving banking family in Berlin. Felix (1809-1847) was one of the greatest child prodigies of his time.

THERE are many people who make very little discrimination between one musician and another, — who discern no great gulf between Mendelssohn and Meyerbeer, between Rossini and Romberg, between Spohr ...

EADaily, December 20th, 2025. The march of the German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), known all over the world and considered a classic symbol of the wedding ceremony, smells of impenetrable ...