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  1. On Wings of Song: A biography of Felix Mendelssohn by Wilfrid Blunt, 1974
  2. Gentle Genius: The Story of Felix Mendelssohn by George Richard Marek, 1975-03
  3. Violin Concerto in E minor Op. 64: Eulenburg Audio+Score Series by Felix Mendelssohn, 2008-03-15
  4. Complete Works for Pianoforte Solo, Vol. 1 by Felix Mendelssohn, 1975-06-01
  5. Felix Mendelssohn: His Life, His Family, His Music by Herbert Kupferberg, 1972-10
  6. Felix Mendelssohn: Out of the Depths of His Heart by Helen Martens, 2009-07-21
  7. Complete Songs without Words for Piano by Felix Mendelssohn, 2008-03-14
  8. The Life of Mendelssohn (Musical Lives) by Peter Mercer-Taylor, 2000-11-06
  9. Felix Mendelssohn and his times by Heinrich Eduard Jacob, 1973
  10. Elijah in Full Score by Felix Mendelssohn, 1995-05-02
  11. Elijah in Full Score by Felix Mendelssohn, 1995-05-02
  12. The Life and Times of Felix Mendelssohn (Masters of Music) by Susan Zannos, 2003-08
  13. Piano Concerto No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 25 (Kalmus Edition) by Felix Mendelssohn, 1985-03-01
  14. The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition by Jeffrey S. Sposato, 2008-11-12

1. Classical Net - Basic Repertoire List - F. Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn. (1809 1847). Classical Net Resources Recommended Biographies;Recommended Scores; CD Reviews; Works List by Douglas Briscoe;
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    Murray Perahia (piano)
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    Martin Jones (piano)
    Concertos for Piano
    Piano Concertos #1, Op. 25 and #2, Op. 40/CBS MK42401
    Murray Perahia (piano), Neville Marriner/Academy Of St. Martin-In-The-Fields
    Piano Concertos #1, Op. 25 and #2, Op. 40/Teldec 9031-71104-2 or 9031-75860-2
    Cyprian Katsaris (piano), Kurt Masur/Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
    Piano Concertos #1, Op. 25 and #2, Op. 40/Chandos CHAN9215
    Howard Shelley (piano)/London Mozart Players
    Piano Concertos #1, Op. 25/Nimbus NI5158
    Christopher Kite (fortepiano), Roy Goodman/Hanover Band
    Concerto for Violin
    Violin Concerto , Op. 64/London 410011-2
    Kyung-Wha Chung (violin), Charles Dutoit/Montreal Symphony Orchestra
    Violin Concerto , Op. 64/RCA Red Seal 5933-2-RC
    Jascha Heifetz (violin), CharlesMunch/Boston Symphony Orchestra
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Felix Mendelssohn. Books, CDs 1975). Complete Works for Piano and Orchestrain Full Score by mendelssohn felix (Paperback June 1996). Complete
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6. Felix Mendelssohn Notation
Felix Mendelssohn Notation on the Web. Complete Works for Piano and Orchestrain Full Score by mendelssohn felix (Paperback June 1996).
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by Felix Mendelssohn (Paperback - June 1975)
by Felix Mendelssohn (Paperback - April 1994) Felix Mendelssohn-Variations Serieuses, Op. 54
by Richard Yates, Felix Mendelssohn (Library Binding) Songs Without Words for Piano
by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Paperback - November 1986) Hymn of Praise: Vocal Score Three Solo Voices and Piano
by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Paperback - November 1986) Lift Thine Eyes to the Mountains: From Elijah a Capella
by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (Paperback - November 1986) Mendelssohn Variations Serieuses, Op.54"
by Felix Mendelssohn (Mass Market Paperback) Elijah in Full Score by Felix Mendelssohn (Paperback - June 1995) The Great Piano Works of Felix Mendelssohn by Felix Mendelssohn (Mass Market Paperback) Complete Chamber Music for Strings by Felix Mendelssohn (Editor), Julius Rietz (Editor)

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Biography extracts from Grove Dictionary of Music (by Matt Boynick).Category Arts Music Composers M mendelssohn-Bartholdy, felix......Epoch Romantic Country Germany. felix mendelssohn (Bartholdy) (1809-1847). DetailedInformation about. Picture Gallery; List of Works; Bibliography. Introduction.
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Introduction (born Hamburg, 3 February 1809; died Leipzig, 4 November 1847). Of a distinguished intellectual, artistic and banking family in Berlin, he grew up in a privileged environment (the family converted from Judaism to Christianity in 1816, taking the additional 'Bartholdy'). He studied the piano with Ludwig Berger and theory and composition with Zelter, producing his first piece in 1820; thereafter, a profusion of sonatas, concertos, string symphonies, piano quartets and Singspiels revealed his increasing mastery of counterpoint and form. Besides family travels and eminent visitors to his parents' salon (Humboldt, Hegel, Klingemann, A.B. Marx, Devrient), early influences included the poetry of Goethe (whom he knew from 1821) and the Schlegel translations of Shakespeare; these are traceable in his best music of the period, including the exuberant String Octet op.20 and the vivid, poetic overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream op.21. His gifts as a conductor also showed themselves early in 1829 he directed a pioneering performance of Bach's

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