SEBASTIAN HENSEL'S book about the Mendelssohn Family 1 is interesting in several ... American collaborator ” in the passage where Felix Mendelssohn, in a letter from London, is made to speak ...

From early in his life, his well-to-do family travelled. Felix’s father firmly believed that it really did broaden the mind. From his teens, Mendelssohn was never without a sketch book of some ...

It has strong provenance, passed directly from Mendelssohn's family to the former owner ... paper study of the influential Romantic composer Felix Mendelssohn as a child has sold at auction ...

The talents of our Mendelssohn’s father lay elsewhere. He built up a powerful Hamburg bank and became a man of considerable wealth, while his wife provided the intellectual life of the family – a ...

Fanny Mendelssohn was one of the greatest musicians of the 19th century. But because she was a woman, she had to fight for her music to be heard. She was born into a musical family – her mother taught ...