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Mendelssohn, Felix

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  1. A nineteenth-century German composer and performer. Besides symphonies, overtures, and concertos, Mendelssohn composed oratorios, notably Elijah, and the incidental music for a production of Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.


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Mendelssohn, Felix, ix, 285; boyhood of, xiv, 164; Mozart compared with, ix, 163; Queen Victoria and, xiv, 181; Thorwaldsen and, vi, 116.

From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians by Elbert Hubbard

Mendelssohn, Felix Bartholdi, was born at Hamburg, February 3, 1809, and died 1857.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.

Mendelssohn, Felix, 3, 31, 53, 66, 73, 85, 105, 293, 300, 309, 400, 409, 411; Psalm, As the Hart Pants, 293; Songs without Words, 319.

From Franz Liszt by James Huneker

Mendelssohn, Felix, born at Hamburg, 344; his precocious genius, 345; his influence in England, 345; patron of John Parry, 345.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott

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