When, in 1775 the Swiss-German Jews, faced with the threat of expulsion, turned to Mendelssohn and asked him to intervene on their behalf with " his friend " Lavater, Lavater, after receiving Mendelssohn's letter, promptly and effectively secured their stay.

Virtually the only response was a letter of complaint to the editor of NZM from Mendelssohn ’ s old colleague Ignaz Moscheles and other professors at the Leipzig Conservatory.

Zelter indeed at one point favoured Fanny over Felix: he wrote to Goethe in 1816, in a letter introducing Abraham Mendelssohn to the poet, ' He has adorable children and his oldest daughter could give you something of Sebastian Bach.

In a letter from Rome, Fanny Mendelssohn described the process behind composing Das Jahr:

Moscheles, according to a letter to Felix Mendelssohn of August 14, 1836, had the impression that Thalberg had already reached a level at which no further help would be needed in order to become a great artist.

" In Leipzig he gave a concert on December 28, 1838, attended by Mendelssohn who on the following day, in a letter to his sister Fanny, gave an enthusiastic account.

At this time Mendelssohn, after meeting Liszt, compared him to Thalberg in a letter to his mother:

In a letter dated 30 July 1838, Mendelssohn wrote to David: " I should like to write a violin concerto for you next winter.

In December 1845, the day after her debut at the Leipzig Gewandhaus under the baton of Mendelssohn, she sang without fee for a charity concert in aid of the Orchestra Widows ' Fund.

In December 1829, a year before the King of Prussia Frederick William III had even announced the tercentennial Augsburg celebrations, Mendelssohn began work on the Reformation Symphony.

Six years later, in October 1769, Lavater sent Mendelssohn his German translation of Charles Bonnet's essay on Christian Evidences, with a preface where he publicly challenged Mendelssohn to refute Bonnet or if he could not then to " do what wisdom, the love of truth and honesty must bid him, what a Socrates would have done if he had read the book and found it unanswerable ".

In the same year ( 1769 ), Lavater tried to convert Moses Mendelssohn to Christianity, by sending him a translation of Charles Bonnet's Palingénésie philosophique, and demanding that he either publicly refute Bonnet's arguments or convert.

In the same year there appeared in Danzig ( Gdańsk ) an anonymous satire, Pope a Metaphysician ( Pope ein Metaphysiker ), which turned out to be the joint work of Lessing and Mendelssohn.

( 3 ) Kant's friend Moses Mendelssohn thought there was a " joking pensiveness " in " Dreams " that sometimes left the reader in doubt as to whether " Dreams " was meant to make " metaphysics laughable or spirit-seeking credible ".

Supported by a fellowship from the Danish government, Gade himself moved to Leipzig, teaching at the Conservatory there, working as an assistant conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and befriending Mendelssohn, who had an important influence on his music.

Today the Moses Mendelssohn Academy is based there ; this organises exhibitions, congresses and presentations and provides a wide range of information about the Jewish culture and way of life.

When therefore Mendelssohn established a Conservatory at Leipzig in 1843 he was keen to attract his friend Moscheles there as a colleague, promising him ample time in his schedules for concertising and music-making.

The Mendelssohn legacy in Britain meant that the Leipzig Conservatory had a high reputation amongst English musicians and amongst those who studied there during Moscheles's time were Arthur Sullivan and Charles Villiers Stanford.

No. 103 Great Portland Street is cited as one of " London's 50 Outstanding Classical Music Landmarks " because Felix Mendelssohn lodged there during the premiere of Fingal's Cave.

Moses Mendelssohn disagreed with Jacobi, saying that there is no actual difference between theism and pantheism.

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, On Evidence in the Metaphysical Sciences ; among the competitors were Thomas Abbt and Immanuel Kant ( who came second ).

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.

Strauss's compositions at this time were indebted to the style of Robert Schumann or Felix Mendelssohn, true to his father's teachings.

Robert Schumann and Felix Mendelssohn were the strongest influences on Rubinstein's music.

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

The founders were Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy ( son of composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ) and Carl Alexander von Martius.

She was descended on both sides from distinguished Jewish families ; her parents were Abraham Mendelssohn ( who was the son of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and later changed the family surname to Mendelssohn Bartholdy ), and Lea, née Salomon, a granddaughter of the entrepreneur Daniel Itzig.

Visitors to the Mendelssohn household in the early 1820s, including Ignaz Moscheles and Sir George Smart, were equally impressed by both siblings.

There he met C. F. Nicolai and Moses Mendelssohn, with whom he formed a close friendship, and who were instrumental in his forming his own views.

Friedrich Schlegel's wife, Dorothea von Schlegel, a daughter of Moses Mendelssohn, was the author of an unfinished romance, Florentin ( 180 ,), a Sammlung romantischer Dichtungen des Mittelalters ( Collection of Romantic Poems of the Middle Ages ) ( 2 vols., 1804 ), a version of Lother und Maller ( 1805 ), and a translation of Madame de Staël's Corinne ( 1807 – 1808 )-all of which were issued under her husband's name.

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

Among her admirers were Robert Schumann, Hector Berlioz and, most importantly for her, Felix Mendelssohn.

Others were passed on through his only known Berlin pupil, Sarah Itzig Levy, the daughter of a prominent Jewish family in Berlin and great-aunt of Felix Mendelssohn ; it was she who gave Mendelssohn the manuscript of the St. Matthew Passion, which she had received from Friedemann.

Some of his scores were collected by Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch and his pupil Carl Friedrich Zelter, the teacher of Felix Mendelssohn and through them these materials were placed in the library of the Berlin Singakademie, which Fasch founded in 1791 and Zelter took charge of in 1800.

Grove criticised Parry, a leading contributor, for being " inclined to be wordy and diffuse ", but articles by Grove on his own particular interests, Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schubert, were even longer.

According to Rey M. Longyear, Spohr's best works were hailed by many of his contemporaries as quintessentially Romantic and inherited by Mendelssohn.

Among the competitors were Moses Mendelssohn, who won, and Immanuel Kant.

Among famous recipients of the civil class of the Pour le Mérite in the first group of awards in 1842 were Alexander von Humboldt, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Jakob Grimm, Felix Mendelssohn, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling and August Wilhelm Schlegel.

Emanuel Bach's work itself influenced the work of, among others, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Mendelssohn.

The German composer Felix Mendelssohn, among others, wrote incidental music ( his op.

As regards a specific knowledge of the instrument, Heller was considered superior even to Mendelssohn ; and his poetry of sentiment, pure and rich melody, and fertility of rhythmical invention place him among the very first composers of his genre.

An organ on which Mendelssohn gave recitals of the " Wedding March ", among other works, is housed in St Ann's Church in Tottenham.

1836 ), among which is the well-known beautiful hymn, which Mendelssohn set to music, Es ist bestimmt in Gottes Rat.

He cultivated friendships with Elizabeth Barrett and Mendelssohn, and later Charles Dickens, Arthur Sullivan and Charles Santley, among others.