In 1829, the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn conducted a revival of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion,” which had lain unpublished and unperformed for nearly a century. Today, more than 170 ...

The influence of Mendelssohn’s Leipzig ancestor, J S Bach, is palpable in his sacred music: these psalms (Nos 42, 98, 114 and 115) are cantata-like settings, brimful of fugal and other rhythmic ...

Psalm 114 "When Israel went out of Egypt" for eight-voice chorus and orchestra, op. 51 by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Beethovenfest Bonn 2018 for the 200th anniversary of the Lower Rhenish ...

Ēriks Ešenvalds music is described as an interlocking mosaic of texts from the gospels, from Byzantine and Roman liturgies, and from the Old Testament. Evenings starts with one of Felix Mendelssohn's ...

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First published in 1974, Musica Judaica is the only scholarly journal devoted solely to Jewish music. Its content is varied and wide ranging, covering many important areas of scholarly investigation ...

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His dual name reflects a multi-faceted religious identity, but Hitler's Third Reich homed in on his Jewishness and banned Felix Mendelssohn’s music. On the paternal side, Mendelssohn was the grandson ...