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

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.

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 Though he was one of the most beloved composers of the Romantic period, 270 of his works remained unpublished until recent years. These lost ...

Commentator Rob Kapilow unfolds the opening, fugue-like layers of Felix Mendelssohn's Octet for strings, revealing the most fantastic 40 seconds ever written by a 16-year-old.

“Mendelssohn, the Nazis and Me,” a recent DVD release from Kultur International Films, reproduces a 2009 BBC TV film by UK-born writer Sheila Hayman about her eminent ancestor, the composer ...

After a period of ill health, Felix Mendelssohn suffered a series of strokes, and died in November 1847, at the age of 38. And yet, all may not have been as it seems.

Felix Mendelssohn was a prodigious German conductor, pianist, organist and composer, having written 12 symphonies by the age of 14. Born: 3 February 1809, Hamburg. Died: 4 November 1847, Leipzig ...

In 1829 Felix Mendelssohn visited the Hebrides, a group of islands off the coast of Scotland. This trip inspired him to write his famous Hebrides Overture. Now, two Cambridge academics have ...

Putting my own and others’ sincere bicentenary panegyrics aside, Felix Mendelssohn wrote not just admittedly splendid works, but also sugary Victorian church schmaltz.More than simply belonging ...

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 ...

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 ...