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Felix Mendelssohn
Featured Biography Felix Mendelssohn

I have grown accustomed to composing in our garden….Today or tomorrow I am going to dream there the Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Felix Mendelssohn, letter to Fanny Mendelssohn, 1826

One of the most-celebrated figures of the early Romantic period, German composer Felix Mendelssohn, born this day in 1809, largely observed Classical models and practices while initiating key aspects of Romanticism.

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