Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
1809–47
Composer. Travelled extensively in his early twenties, becoming a great favourite in England. Town director of music in Düsseldorf, 1833–5. Director of the Conservatory, Leipzig, and conductor of the Gewandhaus Concerts, 1845–7.
Sources
ADB
Scholes 1970.
Bibliography
ADB: Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Under the auspices of the Historical Commission of the Royal Academy of Sciences. 56 vols. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. 1875–1912.
Scholes, Percy A. 1970. The Oxford companion to music. 10th ed. Edited by John Owen Ward. London, New York and Toronto: Oxford University Press.
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