The Orchestra of the Bronx announced it will conclude its 2025-26 season with a performance of Felix Mendelssohn's "Symphony ...

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 ...

There’s a good chance you’ve heard of Felix Mendelssohn, the famed, wildly prolific 19th-century composer. But what about Fanny? This weekend, forgotten music written by Felix’s older sister Fanny ...

The Youngstown Symphony Orchestra is performing its last show of the season, "Inextinguishable," at 7:30 p.m. at Stambuagh ...

Felix Mendelssohn was a prodigious German conductor, pianist, organist and composer, having written 12 symphonies by the age of 14. Born: 3 February 1809, Hamburg. Died: 4 November 1847, Leipzig. He ...

In this 13-part series, pianist, teacher and author David Dubal explores the way the giants of the 19th century wrote for the solo piano. Each one-hour program will focus on a single composer, from ...

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, ...

It must be one of the greatest pieces of feel-good music, the march by Felix Mendelssohn that has accompanied many a new husband and wife on their first walk together back down the aisle. Odds are, it ...

Donald Macleod explores Felix Mendelssohn's last seven years, starting with his appointment in 1841 to the post of Royal Prussian Kapellmeister in his home town of Berlin. For the previous six years ...

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 ...