MENDELSSOHN.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 424, 5 February 1909, Page 5

MENDELSSOHN.

THE CENTENARY OF HIS BIRTH. ' ' '" Y , ra—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COVYRTGIIT ) ; r :! v.: (Roc. February <1, 9.50 p.m.) ' '7 ,• London, Fobruary 4. Tho, centenary of Mendelssohn was celebrated in many English cities. ! V •'•••. ;• . •: A BRIEF BUT-CROWDED LIFE. ~ Mendelssoiin—full-iiame, Jakob Ludwig Felix .Mendelsrsohn-Barthodly-was'born at Hamburg mi, February .3, 1809^and died at 'Leipzig oi November A, 1847. . He was a' celebrated ■ Ger- ? nd . lnllsio ? 4n . - and. a- grandson of Moses Mendelssonn. a noted Jewish -hiloso•pher. ,v;He and his sister, Fanny (Madame Hen-eel),-were .first, taught musio by their'mother; but ln 1816 when they were 7' and 11 years ; o d they were taken .to - Paris and placed, under of 'Madame Bigot. : th |: ?f'. Mix • to 'Berlin; he: studifd with Berger. Zeltor, and Henniiig, and alterwards, with Reitz. He made his Lst appeSance 'in.v.pufclio. on-Ootober 24,'-1818, aud was much, applauded in the pianoforte , part; of a trio for pianoforte: and hvo horns by Woeia. Ega s « coW o*o0* 0 regulaTly. in his'.twelfth' ■ nf? ™mli j? symphonies, quartets, concertos, etc., whioh he produced-after this . time were ■ : S?Jh« r T h- # fe 1 ™"?® 01 parties which' tooK. place at . his father s houso on alternate' Sun■ day. mornings, his brother and two' sisters a'showever, always : conducting and . the 'pianoforte parts. "Manv gl'oat- artists; visited the: house': on'these .sions.. visited :Paris in: 1825, and fn 182!) fe lu^ u P|j^fe c P nduct ed' Bach's "Bassioii MusioV at:Boilm,after much' opposition, for the.first hme after the death of-the composer. The samo war. he/went, to/England, where he'was fnthusiastioallj; received i and he travelled thero and on tkeContmout till July, 1832. In 1833 hn was made musipal direotor at Dusseldorf •' in 1831 member.of the Berlin Academy of Pino Art; and in 1835 conduotor of the Gewandbaus concerts at where he became the S engaged to Cecilo Char•ot. , n |, oflhle Jemrenaud lfi 1838; was married in 1837; went to Berlin ,in 4841 to assist in founding .an; academy - of;' arts; and paid' h$ njnth England, in 18-10, for, the nurpose of produomg ''Blijah." On his return hn i? of his sister Fanny. This With the severe work, began to tell on him and produced illness and depression from wMch .he did not recover. He left between one hundred and .t™ hundred works, among which are the opera The Wedding of Camacho" (1825t diamber and orchestral musio, the ora welf-knoi St ■' Pau, •." m any other