Felix Mendelssohn

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Felix Mendelssohn
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• Full name - Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn
  Bartholdy
• Born - February 3, 1809 in Hamburg
• Died - November 4, 1847 in Leipzig
• Born Jewish, Baptized Lutheran, Ended up and
  Atheist

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Family

• Wealthy bankers
• Grandfather - Moses Mendelssohn was a rabbi and
  philosopher
• Intellectuals - recognized talent but didnt push
  it
• Fanny, his sister, was also a musician

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• Studied in Paris
• Looked to Mozart and Bach for study
• Found special importance in Bach

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• Wrote a huge number of pieces
• Symphonies, Orchestral Music, Operas, Concertos,
  Chamber Music, Choral Works, Piano pieces, and
  Organ pieces... not to mention miscellaneous
  other works such as solos for many instruments

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WORKS

• Violin Concerto in e minor
• Piano Trio in d, Op.49
• String Quartet, Op.44, no. 1
• Octet

Greatest Works
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• Bibliography
• http//library.thinkquest.org/27110/noframes/compo
  sers/mendelssohn.html
• http//www.felixmendelssohn.com/
• http//w3.rz-berlin.mpg.de/cmp/mendelssohn.html