The influence of Chopin and Mendelssohn on Brahms is less obvious, although occasionally one can find in his works what seems to be an allusion to one of theirs ( for example, Brahms's Scherzo, Op.

In the 19th century German composers continued to write motets occasionally, notably Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms ( in German ) and Anton Bruckner ( in Latin ).

Even the music of the Romantic movement, including Liszt, Chopin, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn and Johannes Brahms, was written for pianos substantially different from modern pianos.

Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Brahms also wrote secular cantatas, the best known of which are Brahms's Schicksalslied and Nänie.

The amateur chorus ( beginning chiefly as a social outlet ) began to receive serious consideration as a compositional venue for the part-songs of Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, and others.

Many notable composers, including Felix Mendelssohn, Richard Wagner, Giuseppe Verdi and Johannes Brahms, have criticised the use of the metronome.

During the 1925-30 recordings, Hertz conducted music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Léo Delibes, Alexander Glazunov, Charles Gounod, Fritz Kreisler, Franz Liszt, Alexandre Luigini, Felix Mendelssohn, Moritz Moszkowski, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Franz Schubert and Carl Maria von Weber.

The Queen was suitably impressed by her performance and would call Albani back to perform other pieces, by composers such as Brahms, Grieg, Handel and Mendelssohn, as well as traditional French and Scottish tunes.

Bach, Johann Friedrich Reichardt, and Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, and also later composers such as Felix Mendelssohn, Carl Maria von Weber, and Johannes Brahms.

The museum houses the Academy's collections, including a major collection of Cremonese stringed instruments dated between 1650 and 1740, a selection of historical English pianos from 1790 to 1850, from the famous Mobbs Collection, original manuscripts by Purcell, Mendelssohn, Liszt, Brahms, Sullivan and Vaughan Williams, musical memorabilia and other exhibits.

Selected poems from this collection have been set to music by a number of composers, including Weber, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Loewe, Brahms, Webern and Zemlinsky.

Other German composers from the period included Albert Lortzing, Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn, Anton Bruckner, Max Bruch, Richard Strauss, and Gustav Mahler.

Their discography includes the complete string quartets of Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Bartók, plus various other works by Haydn, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Dvořák, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, and Schnittke.

Since 1991, the orchestra has performed the works of Beethoven, Bizet, Prokofiev, Lutosławski, Weber, Mendelssohn, Schubert, Bernstein, Wagner, Brahms, Henze and more.

Many major composers have contributed to the violin concerto repertoire, with the best known works including those by Bach, Barber, Bartók, Beethoven, Berg, Brahms, Bruch, Dvořák, Glass, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Paganini, Prokofiev, Saint-Saëns, Schoenberg, Shostakovich, Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, and Vivaldi.

In his Viennese concerts young Enescu played works by Brahms, Sarasate and Mendelssohn.

The lyricism of Eichendorff's poetry is much praised, and his poems have been set by many composers, including Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Richard Strauss, Friedrich Nietzsche, Hans Pfitzner, and Alexander Zemlinsky.

Influences in his compositions include Mendelssohn, Brahms, Wagner, as well as Debussy and Elgar in some works which he composed closer to 1900.

The Symphony No. 1 in C major, Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major, and Symphony in F ( No. 3 ) followed the four-movement outline, model after composers like Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms, and Antonin Dvořák.

, the composers whose works have been most frequently performed by the IPO were Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Dvořák.

These intermezzi show a wide variation in the style and function: in Mendelssohn's incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream the intermezzo serves as musical connecting material for action in Shakespeare's play ; in chamber music by Mendelssohn and Brahms, the intermezzi are names for interior movements which would otherwise be called scherzi ; and the piano intermezzi by Brahms, some of his last compositions, are sets of independent character pieces not intended to connect anything else together.

Additionally, they proved immensely influential over the musical language and thinking of the Romantic era, whether as a source of direct inspiration, as with the music of Richard Wagner and Johannes Brahms, or in terms of defining a musical reaction against his stylistic language, as with music of Mendelssohn.

In the same year d ’ Albert won the Mendelssohn Scholarship, enabling him to study in Vienna, where he met Johannes Brahms, Franz Liszt and other important musicians who influenced his style.

Lessing was also famous for his friendship with Jewish-German philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

In 1856, he received the first Mendelssohn Scholarship and studied at the Royal Academy of Music and then at Leipzig, where he also took up conducting.

The Hebrides, also known as Fingal's Cave, is a famous overture composed by Felix Mendelssohn while residing on these islands, while Granville Bantock composed the Hebridean Symphony.

* Symphony No. 5 ( Mendelssohn ), also called the Reformation Symphony, commemorating the Protestant Reformation

Lessing also brought Mendelssohn to public attention for the first time: Mendelssohn had written an essay attacking Germans ' neglect of their native philosophers ( principally Gottfried Leibniz ), and lent the manuscript to Lessing.

Bloch diagnosed the disease as due to ' congestion of blood in the brain ' ( a meaningless diagnosis in modern medical practice as such congestion is anatomically impossible ), and after some controversy this diagnosis was also accepted by the famous Hanoverian court physician, Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann, an admirer of Mendelssohn.

This work called was called the Bi ' ur ( the explanation ) ( 1783 ) and also contained a commentary, only that on Exodus having been written by Mendelssohn himself.

Mendelssohn is also believed to be behind the foundation of the first modern public school for Jewish boys, " Freyschule für Knaben ", in Berlin in 1778 by one of his most ardent pupils, David Friedländer, where both religious and worldly subjects were taught.

Mendelssohn also tried to better the Jews ' situation in general by furthering their rights and acceptance.

Other descendants of Moses Mendelssohn ( see also Mendelssohn family ), including:

Wagner was also emboldened by the death of Mendelssohn in 1847, the popularity of whose conservative style he felt was cramping the potential of German music.

He and Mendelssohn were also soloists in Mendelssohn's Concerto in A-flat major for 2 pianos and orchestra.

Dessau was also the birthplace of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn ( in 1729 ), and Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau ( der alte Dessauer ), a lauded field marshal for the Kingdom of Prussia.

: See also List of compositions by Fanny Mendelssohn.

She also wrote, amongst other works for the piano, a cycle of pieces depicting the months of the year, Das Jahr (" The Year ").< ref > Marcia J. Citron: ' Mendelssohn, Fanny ', Grove Music Online ed.

Mendelssohn also wrote a number of symphonies for string orchestra.

These attacks on Meyerbeer ( which also included swipes at Felix Mendelssohn ) are regarded by Paul Lawrence Rose as a significant milestone in the growth of German anti-Semitism.

Among the earliest notable conductors were Louis Spohr, Carl Maria von Weber, Louis Antoine Jullien and Felix Mendelssohn, all of whom were also composers.

Busoni had a brief period of study in Graz with Wilhelm Mayer ( who used the pseudonym of W. A. Rémy and also taught Felix Weingartner ) and was also helped by Wilhelm Kienzl, who enabled him to conduct a performance of his own composition ' Stabat Mater ' when he was twelve years old, before leaving for Leipzig in 1886 where he studied with Carl Reinecke ( a former pupil of Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann ).