Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Felix Mendelssohn, who was 16 when he composed his Octet. (Micah Fluellen / Los Angeles Times) Listen to the opening of Felix ...

You know you know a lot about Felix Mendelssohn when one of the famed composer’s family members contacts you for information about him. That’s what happened to Jeffrey Sposato, PhD ’00, after Sheila ...

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Unearthing Mendelssohn's Lost Works Felix Mendelssohn was born 200 years ago Tuesday. Though he was one of the most beloved composers of the Romantic period, 270 of his works remained unpublished ...

Dominick Diorio, conductor and artistic director of the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, rehearses for the opening of its 150th season. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to ...

He worshipped Shakespeare, and Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream is among the most perfect musical responses to any of his plays – so why did Mendelssohn never write a ...

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, ...

It’s fitting that a man as industrious as German composer Felix Mendelssohn would write not one, but two pieces of music celebrating the anniversary of the printing press. The invention of modern book ...

An Interview between Jessica Duchen and R. Larry Todd. R. Larry Todd is the author of the definitive biography Mendelssohn: A Life in Music. He is Arts and Sciences Professor of Music at Duke ...

Listen to the opening of Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet, as played by Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and friends on the irresistible recording they made in 1961 at the old Elvis-haunted RCA studios ...