A spirited performance by the PSO of Felix Mendelssohn’s “Symphony No. 4” brought the large audience back to a time when the Classical era in music was not quite finished and the Romantic ...

including the pervasive presence of Bach's music within the larger Mendelssohn family, the influence of Beethoven in the Reformation Symphony, and Mendelssohn's compositions for organ and his ...

Mendelssohn (1809-1847), a German composer, wrote an original piece of music for a chamber orchestra when he was just 12 years old, and he wrote his first symphony designed for a full orchestra to ...

John Michael Cooper is professor of music at Southwestern University and author of 'Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony' (Oxford University Press). Stimulating and informative . . . generously ...

Mendelssohn is one of the 'Sunshine Composers' who, like Rossini and Saint-Saëns, wrote effortless, life-enhancing, optimistic music. 'Felix' is the Latin for 'happy' an auspicious choice for it ...