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From this time Mendelssohn's career was one of ever-increasing brilliance. He became (1756–1759) the leading spirit of Friedrich Nicolai's important literary undertakings, the Bibliothek and the Literaturbriefe, and ran some risk (which Frederick's good nature mitigated) by criticizing the poems of the King of Prussia. In 1762 he married Fromet Guggenheim, who survived him by twenty-six years. In the year following his marriage Mendelssohn won the prize offered by the Berlin Academy for an essay on the application of mathematical proofs to metaphysics; among the competitors were Thomas Abbt and Immanuel Kant. In October 1763 the king granted Mendelssohn the privilege of Protected Jew (Schutz-Jude)—which assured his right to undisturbed residence in Berlin
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Dr. Mendelssohn is chief and physician director of the Department of Nephrology at Humber River Regional Hospital in Toronto, Ontario. He is ... an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. He is currently one of two Canadian principal investigators for the multinational Dialysis Outcomes and Practice Pattern Study (DOPPS).
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In addition to learning German and Hebrew in Berlin, Mendelssohn ... studied some French, Italian, English, Latin and Greek. He took up other secular subjects, in which he excelled, including mathematics, logic and philosophy. In the mid-1750s, he developed friendships with the philosopher Immanuel Kant and also with Gotthold Lessing, a dramatist, literary critic and advocate of enlightened toleration in Germany. With Lessing's encouragement, Mendelssohn began to publish philosophical essays in German.
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Recent critical evaluations of Mendelssohn's work have stressed the subtlety of his compositional technique. For example, the Hebrides Overture has been interpreted as presenting a musical equivalent to the aesthetic subject in the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich.
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This second release devoted to Felix Mendelssohn completes the Atlantis Trio’s survey of the two great piano trios. For the early Piano Sextet (1824), the trio is joined by three distinguished colleagues, Peter Bucknell & Daniel Foster (violas) and Anne Trout (double bass)
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Perhaps the most neglected of the quartet literature in the nineteenth century are the quartets of Mendelssohn. Of his 6 quartets, the three that make up Op. 44 are perhaps the best known.
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