Research Paper On Felix Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn was a famous German composer of the Romantic period. Although he was born into a Jewish family and grew up without a religion he soon became a reformed Christian. Mendelssohn was born with the talent to be able to play instruments and make music, but his parents never really supported his talent and didn’t help him to improve his talent. He went on to pursue what he loved to do and that was to compose and conduct music. Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg, Germany, 1809.

Felix Mendelssohn; a well-known husband, father, son, composer, musician, and one of the most- celebrated figures in the early nineteenth century. Felix Mendelssohn also known as Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was born to a family of Jewish background on February 3, 1809 in Hamburg, Germany. Two years after the birth of Felix his family moved to berlin due to the French occupation of Hamburg. His parents Abraham and Lea Mendelssohn took on the name Bartholdy after being greatly influenced by liberal ideas in which was considered advantageous in conformity with the intention to mark their emancipation from the ghetto by being baptized into Christian faith which took place in 1816. After their new beginning in Berlin and having the

Johann Sebastian Bach was born in Eisenach, the capital of the duchy of Saxe-Eisenach, in present-day Germany, on March 21st, 1865. He was the son of a musician, Johann Abrosias Bach, who was a director of church musicians, and most likely taught Bach the violin. Bach's mother died in 1694, and his father died less than a year later. The 10-year-old Bach moved in with his eldest brother, Johann Christoph Bach, the organist at St. Michael's Church in Ohrdruf, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg, who most

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, now known as Felix Mendelssohn, was born on February 3, 1809 at Hamburg, Germany and died on November 4, 1847 at Leipzig. Mendelssohn’s

In the late 1810’s, Felix Mendelssohn took part in the Singakedemie Music Academy, where he wrote numerous pieces such as multiple violin sonatas, a cantata, two piano sonatas, and a short opera. In 1821, Karl Zelter took Mendelssohn to the port, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Immediately,

Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 in A Major, Op. 90 Movement 1 is in sonata-allegro form. His musical style is mostly classical with a few incorporations from the Romantic style. The theme of the first movement is introduced with violins. The tempo is rather fast and bright which labels the first movement as allegro vivace.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific European Composer during the 18th century where he made a lasting change on the musical world through his numerous compositions and excellence in his capabilities of playing many instruments perfectly. Mozart was born on January 27th, 1756, in Salzburg Austria. His father was Leopold Mozart who was a violinist, a minor composer, and Vice-Kapellmeister at the court of the Archbishop of Salzburg. His mother was Maria Anna Pertl. By the time Mozart was around four his father gave his sister music lessons, but without anyone knowing Mozart would absorb what they were talking about, and he started to awaken his gift. He started memorizing and playing songs just by hearing them and reciting them after. Mozart was four years old when he composed his first concerto for the clavier. On January 24, 1761, three days before his birthday, he learned a scherzo by Georg Christoph Wagenseil between nine and nine thirty at night an unusual time for a small child to be practicing in an age of no electric lights as Jeremy Siepmann says in Mozart His Life and His Music (5).

He was appointed as the conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra and later, upon the urging of the King of Prussia, music director of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. His establishment of the Leipzig Conservatory, where he successfully persuaded many significant figures to join him, including Moscheles, Schumann and Joseph Joachim, was momentous to the musical development of Leipzig. During his engagement at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, he adopted the novel idea of the conductor as the interpreter and demanded precise obedience of the score. His example set the pace for conductors throughout Europe and subsequently created a new branch in the art of music. Furthermore, he helped codify the modern classical concert by programming complete movements of large pieces sequentially rather than interspersing them with unrelated arias or chamber pieces. Mendelssohn also played an important role in reviving forgotten works from the earlier centuries, most notably directing the first performance of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion since the composer’s death and rescuing him from obscurity. Even Schubert and Beethoven, amongst others, are indebted to Mendelssohn for reintroducing their symphonies into the standard repertoire through his series of “historical

Beethoven is perhaps the most famous musician of all time. His influence on later composers was extremely huge, to the extent where many composers were intimidated by his music. Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 into a family of musicians. His father and grandfather were both musicians at the court of Elector in the German town of Bonn. His grandfather was very respected, but his dad not so much given that he was an alcoholic. At a young age, Beethoven was put in charge of his family’s finances and started a job at the court. He composed music and helped look after the instrumentation. Around the same time, he began to write music. In 1790, an important visitor passed through Bonn: this was Franz Joseph Haydn. He was on his way to London for a visit when he stopped to meet Beethoven and agreed to take him on as a student when he came back from London to Vienna. In 1792, Beethoven moved to Vienna to study with Hayden. Apparently, it did not go as planned. Hayden was old fashion and a little overbearing, while Beethoven was rebellious and headstrong. Beethoven found support among the rich arts who lived in Vienna. Prince Lichnowsky gave him board and lodging at his place for in return, Beethoven would compose music and preform at evening parties.

Johannes Brahms was born on Tuesday 7th may 1833, in the city of Hamburg the birthplace also of Mendelssohn. Johann Brahms was himself a musician, and played the double bass for a time at the Karl Schultze Theatre, and later in the Stadttheater orchestra. In 1847 Johannes attended a good Burgerschule (citizens? school), and in 1848 a better, that of one Hoffmann. When he was eight

Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg in 1809. His father Abraham Mendelssohn was a banker, while his mum Lea Mendelssohn was a highly educated artist and musician. Mendelssohn first had his piano lesson from his mum, but soon he was sent to study with the best teachers at that time such as Marie Bigot and Ludwig Burger. He also took composition lessons with Karl

Dmitri Shostakovich was Russian composer born on September 25, 1906. He was born and raised in St. Petersburg Russia. He was the second of 3 children. For the first 9 years of his life, he was not involved with music. It wasn’t until he was nine that he started actively learning and playing music, starting with piano lessons taken under his mother. From 1919-1925 he studied piano and composition at St. Petersburg Conservatory. He wrote his First "Classical" symphony as his graduation piece. In 1927 he won an "honorable mention diploma" at the 1st International Piano Competition in Warsaw. Many people saw him as the new hero of Russian music, since Prokofiev and Rachmaninov had fled to the US several years beforehand.

In 1829, Mendelssohn conducted and performance the St. Matthew passion in Berlin Singakadamie(The first performance in a hundred year). Fanny Mendelssohn was sang the alto part during performance, they prepared for the concert about this piece into four-hands version to study. Indeed, there was a big successful of the performance and J.S Bach’s name show up into people’s view again. Mendelssohn was continued to performance all-Bach program on the organ to retake the Master’s valued piece into public. He was not only as a person who had promoted the Bach’s art, but also putting the Bach composition way into his own works. He published the Seven Characteristic Pieces op.7 in 1827, which was influenced by J.S. Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier. [9]

太突然Mendelssohn got some inspiration from Der Freischütz composed by Weber, in which he used two themes in the whole piece. Although Mendelssohn used more than two themes, every theme is similar to each other. Some are different in tempo and some are different in value, but they still sound similar. For example, the theme from the second movement comes from the first movement. Compare to that music in classical period, and it is clear that Mendelssohn improved logicality and coherence.

He was born in the German town of Bonn on the 16th of December 1770. His grandfather Ludwig and his father Johann were both musicians. Johann was to act as little Ludwig's first music teacher, but Ludwig soon changed to the court organist C. G. Neefe. Passing eleven years of age, Ludwig deputized for Neefe, and at twelve had his first music published. He then stayed as Neefe's assistant until 1787, when at seventeen, he took off for Vienna. Even though Vienna was to be his home for the rest of his life, this first visit was short. On hearing that his mother was dying, he quickly returned to Bonn. Five years later he finally moved to Vienna to live and work.