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Felix Mendelssohn was something of a prodigy. He wrote his first piece at the age of eleven, beginning a prolific period in which the youth created pieces in virtually every genre from sonatas to concertos and even a Singspiel. At the age of twenty, he conducted a performance of Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Berlin Singakademie. This was the first modern performance of the work and was an important event in the nineteenth-century rediscovery of Bach.
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[One] important work of Felix Mendelssohn was Variations serieusesin in 1841 for piano. Concert overtures that included the Hebrides in 1832. This piece of work was inspired by the countryside in Scotland. Violin concerts in 1844 and piano concerts 1831 and 1832.
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Felix Mendelssohn wrote 16 symphonies and a symphony-cantata. Twelve of the symphonies are immature works; but the remainder fairly exemplify his style: facile, full of light melody and brilliant orchestration, occasionally oversentimental, according to some critics. He is best known for his Symphonies No. 3 (Scottish) and No. 4 (Italian), both in A major–minor.
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Soon Felix was being taught by private tutors including Ludwig Berger who taught him the piano. He ... learned music theory and composition. He played the piano at a concert when he was nine, and started to compose little plays with music (called a Singspiel in German). In 1821 he was taken to meet the famous writer Goethe in Weimar. It was to be the first of several visits and Goethe’s way of thinking and his works of German literature had a big influence on the young Mendelssohn. He composed several works at this time including Singspiels, symphonies and chamber music.
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The Symphony No. 1 in C minor for full-scale orchestra was written in 1824, when Mendelssohn was aged 15. This work is experimental, showing the influence of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart. Mendelssohn conducted this symphony on his first visit to London in 1829 with the orchestra of the Royal Philharmonic Society. For the third movement he substituted an orchestration of the Scherzo from his Octet. In this form the piece was an outstanding success and laid the foundations of his British reputation.
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Mendelssohn was taught by Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian pianist composer. Carl Zelter, a German composer... taught Felix. On 11 March in 1829, Mendelssohn conducted the St. Matthew Passion. The composer of this piece was Johann Sebastian Bach. Nevertheless, this first performance since Bach death had the revived public interest in Bach's work. As pianist and conductor, Mendelssohn traveled throughout Europe.
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