Listen to the opening of Felix Mendelssohn’s Octet, as played by Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and friends on the irresistible recording they made in 1961 at the old Elvis-haunted RCA studios ...

Both Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn were precocious children who revealed their musical talent early on. Their family fostered their skills; both received piano and counterpoint instruction. Felix was ...

EADaily, December 20th, 2025. The march of the German composer Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), known all over the world and considered a classic symbol of the wedding ceremony, smells of impenetrable ...

You know you know a lot about Felix Mendelssohn when one of the famed composer’s family members contacts you for information about him. That’s what happened to Jeffrey Sposato, PhD ’00, after Sheila ...

When the 20-year-old Felix Mendelssohn conducted Bach's Saint Matthew Passion in Berlin in 1829, it caused a national sensation. In those days, when a composer died his contemporaries stopped playing ...

Operatic voices reverberate throughout a quaint bar on North Mississippi Avenue — a typical Tuesday night for the musical regulars that frequent Mendelssohn’s, Portland’s one-of-a-kind classical music ...

In our seemingly endless effort to categorize, quantify and qualify nearly everything, the question is often raised: "Who was the world's greatest classical music prodigy?" Mozart, Mendelssohn, ...

Dominick Diorio, conductor and artistic director of the Mendelssohn Chorus of Philadelphia, rehearses for the opening of its 150th season. (Peter Crimmins/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to ...

She plays the intricate Rachmaninov arrangement of the Scherzo at a moderate tempo, slower than many, but with plenty of glittering fairy dust. Let's be real, Kanneh-Mason doesn't have Yuja Wang's ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Alexandra Bregman writes mainly about the art market. Dec 23, 2022, 04:57am EST Dec 24, 2022, 04:36am EST This article is more ...