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Mendelssohn Sheet Music and Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Felix Mendelssohn 3 Feb 1809-4 Nov 1847<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, organist, and pianist of the early Romantic period. He was famous for many works including The Venetian Boat Song<\/a> (Venetian Gondola Song), Song Without Words<\/a>, Bridal March<\/a> and Fruhlingslied<\/a> (also known as Spring Song or Camberwell Green). These are all featured on the site with arrangements for different instruments<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have over eighty arrangements<\/a> for you of Felix Mendelssohn’s Sheet Music<\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was born (3rd February 1809) in Hamburg to Jewish parents; Lea and Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Abraham was a German philanthropist and banker. Lea was a pianist and huge supporter of JS Bach<\/a> and the reason behind Felix’s success. Lea and Abraham decided not to follow the Jewish faith choosing to adopt the Christian faith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Felix was one of four children, his sister Fanny also displayed incredible musical talent and became a composer – but as a female, she became an active composer rather than professional. He was also the grandson of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early Life<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

His mother was his first teacher and he had tutors in Paris and Hamburg. However, it was Carl Friedrich Zelter whom he studied counterpoint and composition that impacted his career. Zelter was an admirer of Bach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mendelssohn established himself as a musical child prodigy. At the age of nine, he made his first public debut in a Chamber Music concert. He wrote around 12 symphonies between the ages of 12 and 14. Many of these works were kept in the Prussian State Library in Berlin but sadly a lot of these works went missing during World War II. Felix performed many private concerts at the family home with an orchestra entertaining wealthy people who visited his parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is hard to imagine that at the age of just fifteen he wrote his first symphony for a full orchestra – in C minor Op.11.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1826 Mendelssohn was taken to Weimar and played for JS Bach<\/a> and Mozart <\/a>whom he dedicated his Piano Quartet No.3 in D minor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Works<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In 1826 Mendelssohn produced one of his best know works ‘Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, following that some of his most famous pieces were; Hebrides (1830), An Italian Symphony (1833), A Violin Concerto (1844) and the Oratorio Elijah (1846).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following its success, he wrote incidental music for “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” which included the Wedding March<\/span><\/a> (1843).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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