Fanny Mendelssohn was a truly great composer, but she faced an almost overwhelming set of obstacles to getting her work published. Fanny Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg on 14 November 1805 and learned ...

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 Though he was one of the most beloved composers of the Romantic period, 270 of his works remained unpublished until recent years.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

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 to an ...

When the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn conducted Bach's Saint Matthew Passion in Berlin in 1829, it caused a national sensation. In those days, when a composer died his contemporaries stopped playing ...

The San Diego Symphony Orchestra has wrapped up the first month of the 2025-2026 Jacobs Masterworks Series. Irwin Jacobs himself was at the Saturday, October 18 concert at The Jacobs Music Center, and ...

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, whose 200th birthday is being celebrated this year with concerts around the world and, starting today, a chamber series in Washington called "Mendelssohn on the Mall," was ...