LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Fanny Mendelssohn
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When Fanny Mendelssohn reestablished the Sunday morning concerts she was continuing a long family tradition. Fanny’s grandfather, Moses Mendelssohn, was a central figure in the Berlin enlightenment, he was a brilliant man who championed Jewish civil rights and integration. He was renowned for running an "open-house" salon where Jews and Christians, men and women, actors, authors and aristocrats mixed. The Berlin salons, mainly run by Jewish families, were well known for their music-making and between 1815-1848 women such as Amalia Beer (mother of composer Giacomo Meyerbeer and poet Michael Beer), Elisabeth von Staegemann, Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and later Fanny Mendelssohn, were the centre of musical life in the city.
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Mendelssohn wrote some Singspiels for family performance in his youth. In 1827 he wrote a more sophisticated work, Die Hochzeit von Camacho, based on an episode in Don Quixote, for public consumption. This was ... not a success - Mendelssohn left the theatre before the conclusion of the first performance and subsequent performances were cancelled.
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Actress Talia Shire (“Rocky,” “Godfather”) gave voice to Fanny in a warm and thoughtful reading. Shire, sister of director Francis Ford Coppola and daughter of famed conductor/composer Carmine Coppola, brought a contemporary reality to the role; you got the sense that she connected with the character on many levels.
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This collection provides documentation of the lives and activities of members of the Mendelssohn family. The vast majority of the collection is correspondence, with some other types of documents such as personal papers, manuscripts, and clippings.
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