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the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn conducted a revival of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion,” which had lain unpublished and unperformed for nearly a century.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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It's hard to imagine wedding music without the familiar strains of Mendelssohn's famous "Wedding March." The tune is so famous — opening with its regal blast of brass — that it seems like it's been ...

Felix Mendelssohn is often viewed as a Classic-Romantic composer whose style paradoxically incorporated elements of formal balance and graceful control on the one hand, and romantic subjectivity and ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...