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Of Mendelssohn's remaining years it must suffice to say that he progressed in fame numbering among his friends more and more of the greatest men of the age. His Morgenstunden appeared in 1785, and he died as the result of a cold contracted while carrying to his publishers in 1786 the manuscript of a vindication of his friend Lessing, who had predeceased him by five years.
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The Mendelssohn Theatre is one of the few theaters in the United States to have a "cyclorama," a curved wall at the back of the stage. The cyclorama improves sound in the theater and can be used for creative lighting effects.
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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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[One] option for your trip down the aisle is the Wedding March from the incidental music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream written by Felix Mendelssohn. This music is commonly used as a recessional, but is actually intended as a processional in the play.
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The sensationalist character of the controversy should not obscure the substance and importance of Mendelssohn's debate with Jacobi. Jacobi had contended that Spinozism is the only consistent position for a metaphysics based upon reason alone and that the only solution to this metaphysics so detrimental to religion and morality is a leap of faith, that salto mortale that poor Lessing famously refused to make. Mendelssohn counters Jacobi's first contention by attempting to demonstrate the metaphysical inconsistency of Spinozism. He takes aim at Jacobi's second contention by demonstrating how the "purified Spinozism" or "refined pantheism" embraced by Lessing is, in the end, only nominally different from theism and ... a threat neither to religion nor to morality.
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Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14 [transcription] - set of parts By Felix Mendelssohn. Arranged by Jungnickel, Ross (1875-1962), Transcriber. For 1+1, 2, 2, 2 - 4, 2, 3, 0, timpani, percussion, harp, strings. This edition: set of parts. Reprint source: Jungnickel, Ross. German: Romantic.
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