Mendelssohn, Felix

Cultural

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

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

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

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Mendelssohn, Felix, 101, 107, 125, 128, 134, 170, 240.

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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.

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