LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Felix Mendelssohn: Hamburg Germany
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M[E]ndelssohn returned to Germany in July to conduct a music festival in Zweibrücken. The balance of the summer was spent in rest and composition at his home in Frankfurt, his main project at that time being the completion of his long-gestating Violin Concerto for the concertmaster of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, Ferdinand David. He fulfilled some obligations in Berlin during the autumn, most notably a performance of his oratorio St. Paul given on the order of King Frederick, and then announced that he was cutting back significantly on his duties at the Academy.
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Tragedy took Fanny from the Mendelssohn family at an age much too young. Felix received the news badly, so badly that it is believed stress caused a ruptured blood vessel in his brain. He never quite recovered. Six months later, Felix Mendelssohn died at the age of 39. Memorial services were held for him in England and Germany and he was mourned by the Queen of England publicly. He was buried in Berlin near the graves of Fanny and his parents.
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Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg in 1809 to a prosperous banking father and an artistic mother. When Mendelssohn was young the family moved to Berlin, where his gift as a musician and composer was nurtured by the best teachers Berlin could offer.
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Felix grew up in an environment of intense intellectual ferment. The greatest minds of Germany were frequent visitors to his family's home in Berlin, including Wilhelm von Humboldt and Alexander von Humboldt. His sister Rebecka married the great German mathematician Lejeune Dirichlet.
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