Happy birthday, Felix Mendelssohn - born February 3, 1809

Multiple links in body of thread | February 3, 2015

[EveningStar]

Felix Mendelssohn, one of history's greatest composers, was born on this day 206 years ago.

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Octet for Strings

Hebrides (or Fingal's Cave) Overture

Violin Concerto

Symphony No. 3 (Scottish)

[EveningStar]

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[lee martell]

I love that Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn. I think it is Concerto E Minor Op. 64.
Another would be the ‘Italian Concerto”.
His sister was also very skilled in the musics, but overlooked by the chauvinism of the time.

[lee martell]

When I have to prepare myself to endure something long and difficult or tedious, I play Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ or as some parts are known, Fingals Cave. It’s like being on a long dark ocean voyage with heavy winds, heavy misting, and heavy listing to the sides.

[Publius]

Mendelssohn: Trio for Piano, Violin & Cello in D minor, Op. 49, first movement

The pianist of this trio is a friend of mine.

[EveningStar]

Italian Concerto

Do you mean Symphony No. 4 (Italian)?

[lee martell]

That’s probably the one I mean. Thanks.
I think Corelli was alive during time.
Another genius!

[oh8eleven]

Buon Compleanno!

[ABN 505]

One of my favorite movies totally forgot about it I have to get a DVD of it

[oh8eleven]

I was watching a re-run of Law and Order not long ago, and the son (from Breaking Away) played the perpetrator.
Then they worked his father into the plot and surprise, he was played by the father from the movie!
Whoever cast that episode had a long memory.

[Arthur McGowan]

http://youtu.be/uun1h2FrtX8

[sitetest]

Thanks for the ping!

Classical Music Ping List ping!

[BigEdLB]

Happy Birthday Wizard of Liepzig

[COBOL2Java]

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert listen as Mendelssohn performs on the piano

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Source:Music Teacher's Blog: Mendelssohn: Part 2 – An Extraordinary Friendship with Queen Victoria

1st of May, 1847

Queen Victoria wrote on the 1st of May 1847 of what would be Mendelssohn’s last visit to Buckingham Palace: “We had the great treat of hearing Mendelssohn play, & he stayed an hour with us, playing some new compositions, with that indescribably beautiful touch of his. I also sang 3 of his songs, which seemed to please him. He is so amiable & clever. For some time he has been engaged in composing an Opera ['Lorelei'] & an Oratorio ['Christus'], but has lost courage about them. The subject for his Opera is a Rhine Legend, & that for the Oratorio, a very beautiful one, depicting Earth, Hell & Heaven, & he played one of the Choruses out of this to us, which was very fine.”

Afterwards, the Queen said to Mendelssohn: “You have given me so much pleasure; now what can I do to give you pleasure?” He replied that he would love to see the royal children playing in their nursery. As a father himself, he was very pleased to accompany the Queen, as she later reported, “all the while comparing notes with him on the homely subjects that had a special attraction for them both.”

Mendelssohn saw Albert for the last time on the 5th of May (1847) at a ‘Concert of Ancient Music’ organised by the Prince at the Hanover Square Rooms. The composer performed an organ prelude and fugue by Bach on an instrument the ‘Times’ described as “one of the worst in the metropolis.”

In response to the Prince’s gift of his inscribed ‘Elijah,’ programme notes, Mendelssohn made a special piano duet arrangement of his ‘Lieder ohne Worte’ in B flat major, Op. 85 No. 6, especially for Victoria and Albert to play, sent with a note of appreciation on the 8th of May 1847, the day of his departure from London.

[left that other site]

I love Fingals Cave.

And the Mynah Bird too!

[MinuteGal]

I have always felt that the genius lineup should be the FOUR B's.....Beethoven, Bach, Brahms....and Bartholdy (Mendelssohn).

Leni

[Intolerant in NJ]

Midsummer Night's Dream...

Love the Italian Symphony - used to be the theme for our afternoon "Masterworks of Music" program when I engineered for the campus radio station years and years ago.....