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Felix Mendelssohn

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

FELIX MENDELSSOHN

FEBRUARY,3 1809 NOVEMBER,4 1847

CHILD HOOD

  • His parents name where Lea and Abraham
  • He had a sibling named funny and she was a composer.
  • Felix didn’t have a job when he was younger

SCHOOLING

  • Felix was very smart in school
  • He started out as a musician right out of school
  • He moved to go to school he moved to go to Toberlin.
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ORIGANTED

  • He is from Hamburg Germany where he was also born there.
  • He also lived in Berlin.
  • He died at Leipzig, Germany

CLASSICAL ERA

  • Some his best pieces are a mid summer night dream and Italian symphony and nebrides.

MID SUMMER NIGHT DREAM

  • It was wrote between 1594 and 1596
  • His song was played in 1826.
  • It required 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 2 horns, 3 trumpets, 3 trombones, tuba, timpani, cymbals, triangle, and strings.
  • https://youtu.be/SEkcP8lZvZA

The reason I choose this is because it requires a lot of different instruments and a lot of different unique parts that are in it.

FUN FACTS

  • Did well in school
  • Child prodigy
  • Played the organ very well
  • Created 3 good compositions

HE DIED AT THE YOUNG AGE OF38

AFTER HE PASSED

HIS MUSIC BECAME MORE POPULAR, INCLUDING MID SUMMER NIGHT DREAM AND HEBRIDES

Religion he was born in a Jewish family but changed religion then he was baptised at the age of seven of a Christian

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