Felix Mendelssohn's natural musical abilities were recognized early.  He began piano lessons with his mother at age six, and learned so ...

The career of many composers is a long road of constant growth, sometimes small, sometimes large, even sometimes a complete change in style...

 Felix Mendelssohn musical precociousness was apparently comparable to Mozart's, but unlike Mozart he was fortunate enough to be born i...

No one is quite sure when Felix Mendelssohn composed the Rondo Capriccioso, with some musicologists offering up as early as 1824 when he was...

Felix Mendelssohn's life was a busy one from the days of his youthful study of music and art to his adult life as a performer, administr...

Walpurgis night (Walpurgisnacht in German) is named after an 8th century English woman missionary St. Walpurga who traveled to the Germanic ...

The title  Italian   Symphony originated with Mendelssohn himself. During his trip in 1830-1831 he drew inspiration from Italy and sketche...

Unlike the childhoods of many composers in the early 19th century, Felix Mendelssohn had the good fortune of being born into a family of wea...

Francis Bacon , 17th century English statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, author and philosopher wrote in his essay titled  Of Studies : ...

Felix Mendelssohn and his older sister Fanny were both musically gifted.  Fanny was a musical child prodigy like her brother and a composer ...

The Hebrides are made up of a group of islands off the west coast of Scotland, some of which have a long history of human habitation t...

The Polish piano vistuoso and composer Fryderyk Chopin was notorious in his negativity towards other composers. Chopin had formed his art...

In a review in 1840 of Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1, Robert Schumann wrote: The storm of recent years is finally beginning to ab...