Lieder Ohne Worte, Op.30
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Browse piano sheets by Felix Mendelssohn on Zen Virtual Piano. In 1812 Felix Mendelssohn’s seven-year-old sister wrote to her friends in Hamburg about her three-year-old brother: “Felix has a strong voice and sings all day.” His parents were Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy. His education was a comprehensive home-tutoring program based on the classical canon that also included drawing, physical education, and piano and violin lessons, as well as the study of composition, and besides music it covered art, literature, languages and philosophy. A curriculum that ran from drawing and physical education to composition and philosophy reads more like the schooling of a whole person than of a prodigy. The children were warmly received in Weimar by Goethe and in Paris by Cherubini, and their parents became more convinced than ever that their boy should become an artist. At age 16 he wrote his String Octet in E-flat major. His first masterpiece, the “Overture to a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” was composed in a magnificent garden. A composer whose early years combined a wide schooling with an octet at sixteen gives the impression of a mind formed early, in step with the breadth of that schooling. His rediscovery and conducting of the practically forgotten St. Matthew’s Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach sparked a veritable Bach renaissance. As director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra he set a new milestone in musical education by founding the first German conservatory in 1843. He made ten trips to England, where Queen Victoria received him and where he was celebrated even more than in Germany, and the popularity of his oratorio Elijah, first produced at Birmingham in 1846, established him as a composer whose influence on English music equaled that of George Frideric Handel. A composer who revived a practically forgotten Passion and founded a conservatory suggests a career in which conducting and founding mattered alongside writing new works.
Browse piano sheets by Felix Mendelssohn on Zen Virtual Piano.
In 1812 Felix Mendelssohn’s seven-year-old sister wrote to her friends in Hamburg about her three-year-old brother: “Felix has a strong voice and sings all day.” His parents were Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy. His education was a comprehensive home-tutoring program based on the classical canon that also included drawing, physical education, and piano and violin lessons, as well as the study of composition, and besides music it covered art, literature, languages and philosophy. A curriculum that ran from drawing and physical education to composition and philosophy reads more like the schooling of a whole person than of a prodigy.
The children were warmly received in Weimar by Goethe and in Paris by Cherubini, and their parents became more convinced than ever that their boy should become an artist. At age 16 he wrote his String Octet in E-flat major. His first masterpiece, the “Overture to a Midsummer Night’s Dream,” was composed in a magnificent garden. A composer whose early years combined a wide schooling with an octet at sixteen gives the impression of a mind formed early, in step with the breadth of that schooling.
His rediscovery and conducting of the practically forgotten St. Matthew’s Passion by Johann Sebastian Bach sparked a veritable Bach renaissance. As director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra he set a new milestone in musical education by founding the first German conservatory in 1843. He made ten trips to England, where Queen Victoria received him and where he was celebrated even more than in Germany, and the popularity of his oratorio Elijah, first produced at Birmingham in 1846, established him as a composer whose influence on English music equaled that of George Frideric Handel. A composer who revived a practically forgotten Passion and founded a conservatory suggests a career in which conducting and founding mattered alongside writing new works.
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His rediscovery and conducting of the practically forgotten St. Matthew’s Passion sparked a veritable Bach renaissance.
In 1843, as director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, he founded the first German conservatory.
His String Octet in E-flat major.