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Encyclopedia > Mendelssohn

Mendelssohn (or Mendelsohn) can refer to several subjects.


People

Mendelssohn is the surname of a number of people:

There are also a number of people with the variation Mendelsohn. Fanny Mendelssohn Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn Bartholdy (November 14, 1805–May 14, 1847), later Fanny Hensel, was a German pianist and composer, and was the sister of Felix Mendelssohn. ... A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ... Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the age of thirty Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, known generally as Felix Mendelssohn (February 3, 1809 – November 4, 1847) was a German composer of the early Romantic period. ... A composer is a person who writes music. ... Heinrich Mendelssohn (* February 21, 1881 in Poznan, † August 7, 1959 in Geneva) was a Berlin building tycoon. ... It has been suggested that Industrialist be merged into this article or section. ... Moses Mendelssohn. ... Jews (Hebrew: יהודים translit. ...

Ben Mendelsohn (April 3, 1969) is an Australian actor and musician. ... Translation in progress Erich Mendelsohn (21 March 1887 – 15 September 1953) was a German Jewish architect, known for his expressionist buildings in the 1920s, the first in their style. ... The coat of arms of the Kingdom of Prussia, 1701-1918 The word Prussia (German: Preußen, Polish: Prusy, Lithuanian: Prūsai, Latin: Borussia) has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and... Matthew Mendelsohn is a Canadian university professor and public policy consultant, who is currently the deputy minister of the Ontario governments Democratic Renewal Secretariat. ... This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ...

Astronomy

  • 3954 Mendelssohn, an asteroid.

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CLASSICAL MUSIC ARCHIVES: Mendelssohn Biography (1392 words)
Felix Mendelssohn has sometimes been called the "classical romantic." Born in 1809 in the first generation of romantic composers, Mendelssohn's music is the most conservative of the group.
There is an objective clarity to Mendelssohn's harmony and a classical symmetry to his melodic phrasing that is quite different from the revolutionary chromatic explorations and outbursts of Chopin even in shorter pieces such as the "Preludes", or the enigmatic irregularities of Schumanns highly personal style in his sets of character pieces for the piano.
In Leipzig, Mendelssohn became married to Cecile Jeanrendaud, daughter of a clergyman of the French Reformed Church.
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