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Mendelssohn
[ men-dl-suhn; German men-duhl-zohn ]
noun
- · [fee, -liks, fey, -liks], Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 1809–47, German composer.
- his grandfather Ѵ· [moh, -ziz, -zis, moh, -zes], 1729–86, German philosopher.
Mendelssohn
/ ˈmɛndəlzoːn; ˈmɛndəlsən /
noun
- MendelssohnFelix18091847MGermanMUSIC: composer Felix (ˈfeːlɪks), full name Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. 1809–47, German romantic composer. His works include the overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream (1826) and Fingal's Cave (1832), five symphonies, the oratorio Elijah (1846), piano pieces, and songs. He was instrumental in the revival of the music of J. S. Bach in the 19th century
- MendelssohnMoses17291786MJewishGermanPHILOSOPHY: philosopher his grandfather, Moses (ˈmoːzəs). 1729–86, German Jewish philosopher. His best-known work is Jerusalem (1783), in which he defends Judaism and appeals for religious toleration
Example Sentences
A choral workshop with amateur singers is also set for the festival's closing concert, Mendelssohn's Elijah.
The chorus has but a small part in Mendelssohn’s score but brought more magic.
Last week he returned with more of the same: a Mendelssohn overture, a Mozart piano concerto and a Beethoven symphony.
Levit wanted to record selections from Mendelssohn’s “Lieder Ohne Worte,” or “Songs Without yvlogs,” because, he has said, “there is a certain melancholy about them which really helped me a bit.”
He felt that if Levi had been born a few generations earlier, they “would be in the record store next to Mendelssohn or Stravinsky,” Larraín told me in 2016.
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