In the world of classical music, there have been many prodigies, but few of them have blazed as early and spectacular a trail as Felix Mendelssohn. At 16, he penned one of the undisputed masterpieces ...

Music includes a Mozart Horn Quintet, Debussy, Faure, and a Mendelssohn Octet. Summer 2020 performances from the shore of Lake Tahoe. Music includes a Mozart Horn Quintet, Debussy, Faure, and a ...

It wasn't what you usually see in the last minutes before a symphony concert: No one was onstage. Where the violins and violas should've been, there weren't even chairs - just music stands. Only when ...

The Pacifica Quartet reduced music for eight instruments to music for four in a recent performance at the Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan. We hear them play the Scherzo movement from Felix ...

At age 16 — please repeat, 16 — Felix Mendelssohn composed one of the most miraculous pieces of chamber music of the last two centuries. His Octet for Strings in E-flat Major is a pedal-to-the-metal ...

It’s not common for 16-year-olds to compose a perfect masterpiece, but Felix Mendelssohn did exactly that with his String Octet of 1825. Saturday evening at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts ...

Eleven of the world’s most renowned string artists converge: violinists Carolin Widmann and Benjamin Beilman, bassist Nina Bernat, and the doubly dynamic Viano and Opus13 quartets! The World Premiere ...

In our seemingly endless effort to categorize, quantify and qualify nearly everything, the question is often raised: "Who was the world's greatest classical music prodigy?" Mozart, Mendelssohn, ...

An exploration of the impact on people of Mendelssohn's Octet and the healing power of music around the world. From August 2011. Show more An exploration of the impact that Mendelssohn's Octet has had ...

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), will present the Emerson String Quartet and the Calidore Quartet: Mendelssohn's Octet and more on June 1, 2022 at 7:30pm ET. The performance kicks off The ...