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1809 - Born on February 3rd in Hamburg, Germany. German composer, grandson of Moses Mendelssohn.
1818 - Felix first played in public on the 24th of October, taking the pianoforte part in a trio by Woelfi.
1819 - On the 11th of April, he entered the Berlin Singakademie as an alto, and in the following year began to compose with extraordinary rapidity.
1820 - His earliest dated work is a cantata, In rührend feierlichen Tönen, completed on the 13th of January.
- He produced nearly sixty movements, including songs, pianoforte sonatas, a trio for pianoforte, violin and violoncello, a sonata for violin and pianoforte, pieces for the organ, and even a little dramatic piece in three scenes.
1821 - He wrote five symphonies for stringed instruments, each in three movements; motets for four voices, an opera, in one act, called Soldatenliebschaft; another, called Die beiden Pädagogen; part of a third, called Die wandernden Comödianten; and an immense quantity of other music of different kinds, all showing the precocity of his genius.
- Mendelssohn paid his first visit to Goethe, with whom he spent sixteen days at Weimar, in company with Zelter.
1824 - Die beiden Neffen was first privately performed, on the fifteenth anniversary of his birthday, the 3rd of February.
- He composed "A Midsummer Night's Dream" overture, five orchestral symphonies (including "Symphony No. 3 in A" (also "Scottish Symphony".
1829 - He formed a choir for the study of the choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown to the public; and, in spite of Zelter's opposition, he succeeded, in inducing the Berlin Singakademie to give a public performance of the Passion according to St. Matthew, under his direction, with a chorus of between three and four hundred voices.
- Mendelssohn paid his first visit to London. His reception was enthusiastic. He made his first appearance before an English audience at one of the Philharmonic Society's concerts -- then held in the Argyll Rooms -- on the 25th of May, conducting his symphony in C minor from the pianoforte, to which he was led by John Cramer.
1831 - He composed and played his pianoforte concerto in G minor, and accepted a commission (never fulfilled) to compose an opera for the Munich theatre.
1837 - Married to Cécile Jeanrenaud on March 28th.
1847 - Died from stroke on November 4th in Leipzig, Germany.
1818 - Felix first played in public on the 24th of October, taking the pianoforte part in a trio by Woelfi.
1819 - On the 11th of April, he entered the Berlin Singakademie as an alto, and in the following year began to compose with extraordinary rapidity.
1820 - His earliest dated work is a cantata, In rührend feierlichen Tönen, completed on the 13th of January.
- He produced nearly sixty movements, including songs, pianoforte sonatas, a trio for pianoforte, violin and violoncello, a sonata for violin and pianoforte, pieces for the organ, and even a little dramatic piece in three scenes.
1821 - He wrote five symphonies for stringed instruments, each in three movements; motets for four voices, an opera, in one act, called Soldatenliebschaft; another, called Die beiden Pädagogen; part of a third, called Die wandernden Comödianten; and an immense quantity of other music of different kinds, all showing the precocity of his genius.
- Mendelssohn paid his first visit to Goethe, with whom he spent sixteen days at Weimar, in company with Zelter.
1824 - Die beiden Neffen was first privately performed, on the fifteenth anniversary of his birthday, the 3rd of February.
- He composed "A Midsummer Night's Dream" overture, five orchestral symphonies (including "Symphony No. 3 in A" (also "Scottish Symphony".
1829 - He formed a choir for the study of the choral works of Johann Sebastian Bach, then unknown to the public; and, in spite of Zelter's opposition, he succeeded, in inducing the Berlin Singakademie to give a public performance of the Passion according to St. Matthew, under his direction, with a chorus of between three and four hundred voices.
- Mendelssohn paid his first visit to London. His reception was enthusiastic. He made his first appearance before an English audience at one of the Philharmonic Society's concerts -- then held in the Argyll Rooms -- on the 25th of May, conducting his symphony in C minor from the pianoforte, to which he was led by John Cramer.
1831 - He composed and played his pianoforte concerto in G minor, and accepted a commission (never fulfilled) to compose an opera for the Munich theatre.
1837 - Married to Cécile Jeanrenaud on March 28th.
1847 - Died from stroke on November 4th in Leipzig, Germany.
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