Felix Mendelssohn

Fanny Hensel was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1805 to Berlin banker Abraham Mendelssohn and his wife, Lea. Along with her younger brother, Felix, Fanny was considered to be musically gifted and received exceptional music education from renowned music experts, such as Ludwig Berger and Carl Friedrich Zelter (Fanny, 2010). As a piano composer, Fanny began orchestrating pieces and performing at a young age; however, her ability to continue her education and make her works public became restricted…

Felix Mendelssohn was one such performer, with his concertos mixing the grand orchestral pieces of the time with these feats of skill (Kelly, 2013). Vibrato, slurring, arpeggio, and tremolo were all techniques used by virtuoso performers like Mendelssohn to showcase their talent. Mendelssohn also used some fairly unusual composition arrangements in Violin Concerto in E Minor, such as placing a…

shore of Scotland. The overture (an piece of orchestral music played at the beginning of a composition) utilizes the sonata type of the classical period. The main subject, played at the opening by the strings and bassoons, incites the thought that Mendelssohn created this piece of music while going to the cave. This melodious theme inspires the staggering beauty of the cave, and passes on the feeling of energy felt by the writer on seeing it surprisingly. It is created in different ways…

due to the Polish November Uprising which inspired him to compose music with nationalistic elements. The following year, he traveled to Paris, which became his home for the rest of his life and met fellow contemporaries such as Franz Liszt and Felix Mendelssohn. This meeting gave him a chance to showcase his talents and he went on to become a highly paid music instructor. Despite being a renowned pianist, Chopin preferred to perform with an intimate group of people at private houses or a salon…

people no matter where they are from, or what their native language is. These are the six eras of music Baroque named after the traditional ornate architectural style of the time, Classical and Romantic creating composers like Berlioz, Chopin, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt, and Verdi. The Medieval era, The Renaissance which signifies “rebirth” also known as the time of cultural awakening finishing off with the Modern Period. On April 12 I attended a piano recital at The New School presented by…

This comedy is set in ancient old Greece, more particularly Athens. This plays plot if concentrated on one major couples chaotic love triangle. It begins off that while Hermia and Lysander both love one another Demetrius also adores Hermia. Meanwhile Helena loves Demetrius, and no one seems to be in love with Helena. To muddle things Egeus Hermia 's father wishes Hermia to wed Demetrius in the event that she doesn 't she will be in sent to a convent or even executed at the direction of the law.…

Concert Report On Friday, November 4th, 2016, a concert was held at Whitman Theatre, Brooklyn College by the Conservatory Orchestra from 7:30 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. The conductor was George Rothman and the Orchestra manager was Timothy Barrus. There were 29 performers who played violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, percussion, and timpani. They performed three representative pieces of compositions from the twentieth-century, which were “Washington 's Birthday”…

violin pieces transposed to be performed on the cello. The music piece would be typically adjusted by knocking the piece down an octave. Some famous composers to write beautiful pieces of music for the cello were Felix Mendelssohn, Ludwig van Beethoven, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Mendelssohn composed four pieces of music for the cello and Beethoven composed five. Mozart did not compose any piece specifically with the cello in mind. Some wondered if Mozart did not like the cello. Most…

I am of German-Irish decent, I chose to write about my German heritage. I am the fourth generation of German-American on my mother’s side and the fifth generation on my father’s side. I will report on the overview of Germany and its people, an artifacts that exist from my German culture, and a dress indicative of the culture. I will also include my own familial ties to the culture, and its traditions, cultural patterns that I identify with, as well as the influence the German heritage has on my…

The first feature that ties some of these songs together is the period they were produced. Many of these composer lived during the romantic period, such as Felix Mendelssohn, Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns, and Edvard Grieg, accordingly, their music possessed the traits that defined the romantic period. As has been discussed in class, Grieg bases his “Morning Mood” on the Norwegian folk tune, creating a sense of nationalism in the process. While Mendelssohn’s “Symphony No. 5” contains a variation…