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Stokes Encyclopedia Of Music And Musicians Volume Ii, 1908
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11888-92, and press representative of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Mr. Meltzer wrote several plays and made excellent poetic versions of the libretto to "Walkuere" and Hauptmann's "Sunken Bell." He was a pupil of the Paris Sorbonne. B. London, June 7, 1853 (of Russian parents, naturalized in England); add. New York.
3Melusina. Felix Mendelssohn's fourth concert overture, Op. 32, was first performed at Düsseldorf, 1833.
5Même Mouvement. Fr. The same movement.
7Men or Meno. It. "Less," as meno piano, less soft.
9Mendel (Hermann) wrote lives of Meyerbeer and Nicolai; edited the "Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon." B. Aug. 6, 1834, Halle; d. Oct. 26, 1876, Berlin.
11Mendelssohn (Felix) composed the oratorios "St Paul," "Elijah," symphonies, including the so-called "Scotch," and "Italian," a celebrated concerto for violin, "A Midsummer Night's Dream," and other overtures, the exquisite "Songs without Words" for piano; was a virtuoso performer on the organ and piano, one of the foremost representatives of the older school of conducting, and the greatest of the many eminent musicians produced by the Jewish race. The family was descended from Mendel, who was schoolmaster of Dessau. Moses Mendelssohn, son of the schoolmaster, distinguished himself in literature, settling in Berlin, where his "Phaedon" was published in 1767. Abraham, second son of Moses, became a prosperous banker in Berlin, and was a man of wide culture, though chiefly known in history as the son of his father and the father of his son. He adopted the Christian faith, and added the name "Bartholdy" to his patronymic, and by inheritance and the rite of baptism the great composer, son of Abraham and his wife, Lea Salomon, became Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. A singularly beautiful devotion marked the family life of the Mendelssohns. Felix was born in Hamburg, where his father was engaged in business, but the French occupation of that city caused the family to return to Berlin when he was but three years old. The mother discovered that her son had "Bach fugue fingers," and he shared with his elder sister Fanny maternal instruction at the piano, which began with five minute lessons. During a sojourn in Paris, Felix, then seven years of age, and his sister, had lessons of Mme. Bigot, and when the family was again united in Berlin the youngsters studied piano with L. Berger, violin with Henning, and theory with Zelter. At the same time the foundations of a general classical education were laid. At 10 the boy made his first appearance at a public concert, playing the piano part in a trio, and the following year he was entered at the Singakademie as an alto. In that year, 1819, the boy's setting of Psalm xix was performed at the Akademie. At 12 he began that collection of his compositions which eventually reached 44 volumes. These early attempts included chamber music, part-songs, a cantata, a comedy with music (Lustspiel), and the one-act operas "Soldatenliebschaft," "Die beiden Pädagogen," and part of another, "Die wandernden Comödianten." A meeting with von Weber at Berlin and a 16 days' visit to Goethe at Weimar were incidents of 1821. In 1822 he again played in concert, joined his family in a tour of Switzerland, and made a second visit to Weimar. Quartets, songs, a Kyrie for two choirs, and the opera "Die beiden Neffen," or "Der Onkel aus Boston," were composed at this period, and all were performed at the Sunday musical entertainments given by the Mendelssohn family at their home in Berlin. From the first the boy showed remarkable talent for improvising, and it is said that during his first visit to Goethe he extemporized the development of a Bach fugue which the great poet asked to hear. In 1824 Mendelssohn received lessons from Moscheles, scored his first symphony, C minor, Op. 11. In 1825 he visited Paris with his father, was welcomed by the best musicians of the French capital, and
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