Marche nuptiale de felix mendelssohn biography

The son of a Berlin banker easy Jew whose family, who converted to Christianity, became an intellectual and artistic deemed that attend, including Hegel and his first music teacher, Zelter, he was noted very young for his precocity, especially by Goethe in which he plays. He runs to fifteen years his first opera. His teacher, composer Ignaz Moscheles, admits to not having much to teach him as he is gifted. At sixteen he had already composed his twelve symphonies for string orchestra, his first symphony, a string octet and five concertos for violin and piano. He plays with his elder sister Fanny Mendelssohn, also a piano virtuoso, he will remain very close throughout his life. Musical director of the Leipzig Gewandhaus in 1835, it is called in the 1840s in Berlin by the Prussian King Frederick William IV to reorganize the musical life of the city. He became the most famous European composer of his time, particularly in England. In Leipzig in the 1840s, he befriended the composer Robert Schumann, who considers him the "Mozart of the nineteenth century". He encourages other composers, including Joseph Joachim Raff or Niels Wilhelm Gade. Among his most famous works include The Dream of a Summer Night, the sublime Violin Concerto in E minor op. 64, the symp

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