Ave maria felix mendelssohn biography

  • A magnificent rendition of the Ave Maria by Felix Mendelssohn, which may seem odd, as he was a 'Reformed Christian' from the age of seven.
  • Felix Mendelssohn, grandson of the distinguished Jewish thinker Moses Mendelssohn, was born in Hamburg, the son of a banker (the additional surname Bartholdy.
  • Mendelssohn composed this beautiful 8-part motet in 1830.

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    A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mendelssohn, Felix

    ​MENDELSSOHN.[1]Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was born at Hamburg, in the Grosse Michaelisstrasse No. 14[2] Friday, Feb. 3, 1809. That was at all events a lucky Friday. The family was already well known from Moses Mendelssohn, the grandfather of Felix, 'The Modern Plato,' whose 'Phädon,' a dialogue upon the immortality of the soul, based on the Phædo of Plato, was translated, long before the birth of his illustrious grandson, into almost every European[3] (and at least one Asiatic) language. Moses was the son of Mendel, a poor Jewish schoolmaster of Dessau, on the Elbe, and was born there Sept. 6, 1729. The name Mendelssohn, i.e. 'son of Mendel,' is the ordinary Jewish, oriental, way of forming a name. Moses migrated at 14 years old to Berlin, settled there in 1762, married Fromet, daughter of Abraham Gugenheim, of Hamburg, had 6 children, 3 sons and 3 daughters, published his Ph

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    Felix MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY (1809-1847)
    bladte Deum, MWV B 15 [33:58]
    Hora est, MWV B 18 [7:48]
    Ave Maria, MWV B 19 [6:03]
    Sonntraud Engels-Benz (continuo organ, organ)
    Kammerchor Stuttgart/Frieder Bernius
    rec. June 2020, Evangelische Kirche, Gönningen, Reutlingen, Germany
    Sung Latin texts, German translation
    HÄNSSLER CLASSIC HC20034 [47:53]

    “With his many compositions of sacred vocal music Fel

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    List of compositions by Felix Mendelssohn

    This is a list of compositions by Felix Mendelssohn.

    Listed by opus number

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    (Note: the list includes works which were published posthumously and given opus numbers after the composer's death. Only the opus numbers 1 to 72 were assigned by Mendelssohn, the later ones by publishers. The opus number sequence does not therefore always accord with the order of composition). The list also includes the Mendelssohn-Werkverzeichnis classification code (MWV).

    Works with opus number assigned by Mendelssohn

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    Op. 1–20

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    • Op. 1, Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor (1822) (MWV Q 11)
    • Op. 2, Piano Quartet No. 2 in F minor (1823) (MWV Q 13)
    • Op. 3, Piano Quartet No. 3 in B minor (1824/25) (MWV Q 17)
    • Op. 4, Violin Sonata (No. 2) in F minor (1823) (MWV Q 12)
    • Op. 5, Capriccio in F-sharp minor for piano (1825) (MWV U 50)
    • Op. 6, Piano Sonata No. 1 in E major (1826) (MWV U 54) (actually the composer's 2nd Piano Sonata)
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