This weekend, forgotten music written by Felix’s older sister Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is being sung back to life in the Boston area. The unearthed works were all but lost for well over a century.

Family dynamics fuel Isata-Kanneh Mason’s 'Mendelssohn' album The rising young pianist, from a family of seven musical siblings, offers dynamic music by brother and sister Felix and Fanny ...

Cécile spreads out the Mendelssohn family tree on the table. Roughly half the family, descended from Felix’s brother Paul (1812-74), is in banking and is distinguished by the hyphen between ...

The Mendelssohn Family. 1729-1847.By SEBASTIAN HENSEL. Translated by CARL KLINGEMANN and an American collaborator, with a notice by GEORGE GROVE, ESQ., D. C. L.

It is well-known that Moses Mendelssohn’s family represented the highest form of Bildung. But so did Felix’s mother’s side of the family, which included music lovers who had nurtured two of ...

The German state of Bavaria has struck a sour note with the family of celebrated classical composer Felix Mendelssohn by refusing to return a precious Picasso painting lost during the Nazis’ pre ...

Rare Portrait Study Of Composer Felix Mendelssohn Descended From His Family Sells For £34,040. Date. 2025-03-20 11:08:46. Share on Facebook; Tweet on Twitter ...

The letters themselves begin in 1829, and continue to within a few months of Mendelssohn’s death, in 1847, when the Moscheles family had removed from London to Leipzig.

A lost song that German composer Felix Mendelssohn wrote in 1842 has been found, but its sudden emergence is clouded in mystery. Why was it found in the U.S., and why was it never published?

Felix Mendelssohn News. Top News // 7 years ago. The Almanac. On Feb. 3, 1924, Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States, died in Washington at the age of 67.