Felix Mendelssohn

Standard Name: Mendelssohn, Felix

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Education Dora Russell
Here Dora became passionate about Goethe and Schiller , Mendelssohn and Schubert , and about theatre in general.
Friends, Associates Hannah Arendt
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 ...
Friends, Associates Mary Cowden Clarke
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...
Leisure and Society Frances Ridley Havergal
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.
Enock, Esther E. Frances Ridley Havergal. Pickering and Inglis, 1928.
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She lived...
Textual Production Patricia Highsmith
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!
Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990.
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At Barnard she...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Beatrice Harraden
Patuffa, growing up during the nineteenth century and considered the black sheep of her family, is described as a rebellious and gifted child.
Colles, Hester Janet. “Spring Shall Plant”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 975, 23 Sept. 1920, p. 614.
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She repeatedly finds herself expelled from school for her rage and...

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