With more than 250 years of music-making to its legacy, it is no surprise that the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra brings with it a real, unshakable sense of history. As chief conductor Riccardo Chailly ...

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Fanny Hensel and Kurt Masur are celebrated in Felix Mendelssohn's last residence in Leipzig, just around the corner of Leipzig's famous Gewandhaus. "And where is Fanny?" – that's the question asked by ...

Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer, pianist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Born in Hamburg in 1809 to an affluent Jewish family, he was considered a child prodigy and throughout his ...

Further visits to Britain during the early 1830s cemented Mendelssohn’s relationship with the country which he now considered his second home, but with the European tour now effectively at an end he ...

(11 February 2022) The year 2022 marks the 175th anniversary of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's death on 4 November 1847 in Leipzig. At the same time, the Mendelssohn House will celebrate its 25th ...

BOSTON - Most classical music concerts feature one instrumental soloists. Occasionally, there are two soloists, especially if they're singers. But three pianists on the same stage at the same time ...

When it comes to symphonies, very few composers have all of their symphonic utterances consistently performed. Of course, Beethoven sits atop the heap even if his First, Second, Fourth, and Eighth ...

Mendelssohn: Complete String Symphonies (English String Orchestra, William Boughton, cond.; Nimbus, three separate CDs, 59:44, 52:24 and 70:47). To the five orchestral symphonies by which Felix ...

Mendelssohn is one of the 'Sunshine Composers' who, like Rossini and Saint-Saëns, wrote effortless, life-enhancing, optimistic music. 'Felix' is the Latin for 'happy' an auspicious choice for it ...