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Felix Mendelssohn
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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn was born into a remarkably gifted and intellectual German family. But did you know that his family was Jewish, although they adopted Christian doctrine and the children were baptized in a Lutheran church? Did you know that his grandfather, Moses Mendelssohn, was one of the foremost scholars of his day? These are the lesser-known facts about the well known musician.
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This Wedding March comes from Mendelssohn's the incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream. It became customary to play this at marriage ceremonies from about the mid 19th Century. You might ... like to try the Bridal Chorus by Wagner.
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Known in his time as a great conductor, Mendelssohn helped promote the works of Bach, which were largely forgotten by this time. Such respect for the beauties of musical form carried over into Songs without Words, each an individual gem (often studied by composition students) and lovely to hear for their lyricism and surprising alternatives to the expected melodic and harmonic turns.
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When Felix was six, his parents had them baptized in the Lutheran church, though they themselves, for the time being, remained Jewish. This was the era that many German Jews had gained their freedom from the degradation of the shtetl. They wanted to participate fully in the glories of German culture. They believed that Judaism, with its history of torment, persecution, and abuse, was an antiquated and self-defeating form of religion, an obstacle to their integration into the wider community.
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Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Wagner: Bridal Chorus / The Wedding March Composed by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), Richard Wagner (1813-1883), arranged by Simon Halz. Guitar tablature single for solo guitar. 3 pages. Published by Warner Brothers.
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Mendelssohn started composing when he was just a teenager. His maturity in compositions was developed very quickly. A fine example would be Octet in E flat for Strings, a work of 16-year-old boy, surpassing anything Schubert or Mozart composed in their teens.
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