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Why did Felix Mendelssohn not conduct the premiere of his Violin Concerto in E Minor?
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German composer Felix Mendelssohn, painting by Wilhelm Hensel.
Felix Mendelssohn did not conduct the premiere of his Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64 on March 13, 1845, because he was ill at the time. Instead, the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra was led by his assistant, the Danish conductor and composer Niels Gade.1