Both Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn were precocious children who revealed their musical talent early on. Their family fostered their skills; both received piano and counterpoint instruction. Felix was ...

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 ...

Though his musical genius is indisputable, Felix Mendelssohn wasn’t the only talent in his family. As his great-granddaughter Cécile reveals, the family was a gifted bunch... When Felix Mendelssohn ...

It must be one of the greatest pieces of feel-good music, the march by Felix Mendelssohn that has accompanied many a new husband and wife on their first walk together back down the aisle. Odds are, it ...

How ugly were these porcelain monkeys? Ugly enough that when the West Berlin Senate tried to put one of them in a 1978 museum exhibition about Prussia, a different one was substituted because the ...

Mendelssohn is one of the 'Sunshine Composers' who, like Rossini and Saint-Saëns, wrote effortless, life-enhancing, optimistic music. 'Felix' is the Latin for 'happy' an auspicious choice for it ...

A piano sonata by German composer Fanny Mendelssohn is being performed in Britain for the first time, 140 years after it was written. The work was once thought to be by her brother, Felix. A sonata ...

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, ...

As well as music, he wrote eight thousand letters in three languages, and relaxed by writing poetry and painting. Mendelssohn was a true polymath. Sir George Grove gives a vivid description of ...

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 ...