Feliks mendelssohn bartholdy biography
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Felix Mendelssohn Biography
Born: February 3, 1809
Hamburg, Germany
Died: November 4, 1847
Leipzig, Germany
German composer
Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer (a writer of music), conductor (the leader of a musical group), pianist, and organist.
Feliks mendelssohn bartholdy biography
He developed a basic classical approach to musical composition with fresh romantic harmonies and expressiveness.
Childhood
Felix Jakob Ludwig Mendelssohn-Bartholdy was born in Hamburg, Germany, on February 3, 1809, the son of Abraham and Leah Mendelssohn and the grandson of the famous Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786).
In later years Felix's father humorously referred to himself as "formerly the son of my father and now the father of my son." In 1812 the family moved to Berlin, Germany, where Abraham established himself as a banker, converted to Protestantism (a branch of Christian religion), and changed the family name to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
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