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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 adapted ...

It wasn't what you usually see in the last minutes before a symphony concert: No one was onstage. Where the violins and violas should've been, there weren't even chairs - just music stands. Only when ...

The Mendelssohn Piano Trio is the remarkable collaboration of three international artists whose 1997 debut in Baltimore echoed their love of the composer’s music. This week they mark the 200th ...

Fanny Mendelssohn was one of the greatest musicians of the 19th century. But because she was a woman, she had to fight for her music to be heard. She was born into a musical family – her mother taught ...

DELMAR, N.Y. (NEWS10) — The Mendelssohn Club of Albany will start auditioning new male singers. The Club is looking for tenors and basses to join their ranks for Wednesday evening rehearsals and the ...