Felix Mendelssohn

Growing up in the household of her step-family, HA made the acquaintance of Anna Mendelssohn , later Weil, who became an intimate and lifelong friend. Anna was a descendant of the composer Felix Mendelssohn ...

In addition to meeting Dickens as a result of her theatrical activities, MCC and her husband met William Hazlitt through a shared duty of theatre reviewing, and she became friends with Mary Howitt , and...

Patuffa, growing up during the nineteenth century and considered the black sheep of her family, is described as a rebellious and gifted child. She repeatedly finds herself expelled from school for her rage and...

FRH could play much of Handel , Beethoven , and Mendelssohn from memory, and her powers as a solo singer were very much in request in the Philharmonic Society at Kidderminster. She lived...

At seventeen, back in Texas before going to college, she thought at a film of A Midsummer-Night's Dream: Mendelssohn was no older when he wrote that overture. What a genius! At Barnard she...

Here Dora became passionate about Goethe and Schiller , Mendelssohn and Schubert , and about theatre in general.