Felix Moscheles was Mendelssohn’s godchild, and naturally received strong impression of him. The brief introduction which is all he allows his pen is exquisitely touched with the memory of his ...

Hear the pure, anything-is-possible optimism of a brilliant 16-year-old composer in Mendelssohn’s Octet, which seems made for this moment.

This weekend, forgotten music written by Felix’s older sister Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel is being sung back to life in the Boston area. The unearthed works were all but lost for well over a century.

Commentator Rob Kapilow unfolds the opening, fugue-like layers of Felix Mendelssohn's Octet for strings, revealing the most fantastic 40 seconds ever written by a 16-year-old.

During the spring of 1825 Felix Mendelssohn composed a Piano Quartet in B minor whose expressive intensity and originality signalled yet another leap of musical imagination. Yet even this gave little ...

Roughly half the family, descended from Felix’s brother Paul (1812-74), is in banking and is distinguished by the hyphen between Mendelssohn and Bartholdy (a baptismal name indicating Protestant ...