Sir, – Thank you for Derek Scally’s atmospheric piece on Felix Mendelssohn and his house (An Irishman’s Diary, November 20th). There is a small Irish connection to the house. In mid-January ...

Hear the pure, anything-is-possible optimism of a brilliant 16-year-old composer in Mendelssohn’s Octet, which seems made for this moment.

Once trapped in communist East Germany, bustling Leipzig is now a city of business and of culture. It’s also a city of great history – Martin Luther, Goethe, Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix ...

Leipzig has been a city for 1,000 years, managing to beautifully preserve its history without getting stuck in the past. Once home to music legends Johann Sebastian Bach, Felix Mendelssohn, and ...

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born, and generally known in English-speaking countries, as Felix Mendelssohn (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847) was a German composer, pianist ...

Fanny Hensel and Kurt Masur are celebrated in Felix Mendelssohn's last residence in Leipzig, just around the corner of Leipzig's famous Gewandhaus.

Felix Mendelssohn was still alive when the New York Philharmonic was founded in 1842. “He most certainly influenced our orchestra from its inception,” Philharmonic archivist Barbara Haws told ...

For her new recording of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Mutter traveled to the composer's old stomping ground in Leipzig, Germany, to the site where the concerto had its premiere in 1845.

Local Nazi newspapers today joined in demanding removal of the Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdi statue from the Municipal Hall. It was suggested the statue of the famous composer be presented to the ...

Among the greatest European conductors and composers of the 19th century, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wielded immense influence on the music scene and is credited with rediscovering Bach as well ...

In 1841 Mendelssohn made an ill-advised move to Berlin, where the culture of political squabbling quickly reduced him to a state of nervous exhaustion, but within a year Fanny could happily report ...

Felix Mendelssohn, born in Hamburg in 1809 and raised in Berlin, was a regular visitor to Leipzig and he secured the place of the Gewandhaus – and its in-house orchestra – on Europe’s ...