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Felix Mendelssohn

1809 - 1847

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Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream (which includes his "Wedding March"), the Italian and Scottish Symphonies, the oratorios St. Paul and Elijah, the Hebrides Overture, the mature Violin Concerto, the String Octet, and the melody used in the Christmas carol "Hark! Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Felix Mendelssohn is the 20th most popular composer (down from 19th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Germany (up from 49th in 2019) and the 7th most popular German Composer.

Felix Mendelssohn is most famous for his compositions.

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Among COMPOSERS

Among composers, Felix Mendelssohn ranks 20 out of 1,451. Before him are Johannes Brahms, Giacomo Puccini, Antonín Dvořák, Johann Strauss II, Robert Schumann, and Gioachino Rossini. After him are Edvard Grieg, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Claudio Monteverdi, Maurice Ravel, Hector Berlioz, and Georges Bizet.

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Among people born in 1809, Felix Mendelssohn ranks 4. Before him are Charles Darwin, Edgar Allan Poe, and Abraham Lincoln. After him are Nikolai Gogol, William Ewart Gladstone, Louis Braille, Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Georges-Eugène Haussmann, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Bruno Bauer, and Joseph Liouville. Among people deceased in 1847, Felix Mendelssohn ranks 1. After him are Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma, Archduke Charles, Duke of Teschen, Fanny Mendelssohn, Emmanuel de Grouchy, marquis de Grouchy, Mary Anning, Archduke Joseph, Palatine of Hungary, Marie Duplessis, Jules de Polignac, John Franklin, Alexandre Brongniart, and Adélaïde d'Orléans.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Felix Mendelssohn ranks 47 out of 7,253. Before him are Robert Schumann (1810), Josef Mengele (1911), Albert, Prince Consort (1819), Hermann Göring (1893), Bertolt Brecht (1898), and Franz Beckenbauer (1945). After him are Werner Heisenberg (1901), Christian IX of Denmark (1818), Robert Koch (1843), Marlene Dietrich (1901), Alexander von Humboldt (1769), and Thomas Mann (1875).

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Among COMPOSERS In Germany

Among composers born in Germany, Felix Mendelssohn ranks 7. Before him are Ludwig van Beethoven (1770), Johann Sebastian Bach (1685), George Frideric Handel (1685), Richard Wagner (1813), Johannes Brahms (1833), and Robert Schumann (1810). After him are Jacques Offenbach (1819), Richard Strauss (1864), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), Carl Maria von Weber (1786), and Carl Orff (1895).

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