Fanny’s younger brother Felix Mendelssohn, the sibling who was allowed to turn musical composition into a full-time profession, is also on the “Mendelssohn Takes Flight” bill, and happily it ...

On a spring evening in Nuremberg, an orchestra of New York students gathered for a concert celebrating 80 years since the end ...

Guest conductor Jonathan Taylor Rush led the orchestra in works by Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and Peter Tchaikovsky.

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 ...

The composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) enraptured the royal courts and concert halls of Europe before dying at 38, shattered by the sudden death of his beloved sister and musical soul mate ...

The composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-47) enraptured the royal courts and concert halls of Europe before dying at 38, shattered by the sudden death of his beloved sister and musical soul mate ...

This weekend, forgotten music written by Felix’s older sister Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is being sung back to life in the Boston area. The unearthed works were all but lost for well over a century.

Leonard Bernstein with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, playing Felix Mendelssohn Symphony 4 in A major Allegro vivace. A live recording from the Mann Auditorium in October 1978. "[Huberman ...

Felix Moscheles was Mendelssohn’s godchild, and naturally received strong impression of him. The brief introduction which is all he allows his pen is exquisitely touched with the memory of his ...

Mendelssohn, on the other hand, was a fine composer as a child and was composing genuinely great music by the time he was in his teens: his Octet, one of the seminal chamber music works of the ...

Pianist Jung Lin performs two of Felix Mendelssohn's Songs without Words, Op. 30 No. 6, and Op. 38 No. 6 in a recital at last year's International Keyboard Institute and Festival.