Felix Mendelssohn Affinities
German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of Jewish descent
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- organ, piano, violin
- opera, classical music, symphonic music
- German Confederation, Kingdom of Saxony
- composer, pianist, organist, conductor, musicologist, music teacher, university teacher, painter, writer
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Are listed here known relationships with artists and orchestras, such as influences, similarities, collaborations, family bonds.
Influences, influencers, influenced...
These composers have influenced Felix Mendelssohn:
- Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714 - 1788)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827)
- Luigi Cherubini (1760 - 1842)
- Jan Ladislav Dussek (1760 - 1812)
- John Field (1782 - 1837)
- Christoph Willibald von Gluck (1714 - 1787)
- George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759)
- Joseph Haydn (1732 - 1809)
- Johann Nepomuk Hummel (1778 - 1837)
- Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 - 1847)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791)
- Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 - 1594)
- Domenico Scarlatti (1685 - 1757)
- Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828)
- Louis Spohr (1784 - 1859)
- Carl Maria von Weber (1786 - 1826)
Felix Mendelssohn has been trained by Ignaz Moscheles, Carl Friedrich Zelter.
Felix Mendelssohn has influenced these composers:
- Hugo Alfvén (1872 - 1960)
- Charles-Valentin Alkan (1813 - 1888)
- Anton Arensky (1861 - 1906)
- Franz Berwald (1796 - 1868)
- Georges Bizet (1838 - 1875)
- Alexander Borodin (1833 - 1887)
- Giovanni Bottesini (1821 - 1889)
- Johannes Brahms (1833 - 1897)
- Max Bruch (1838 - 1920)
- Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896)
- Edward Elgar (1857 - 1934)
- Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924)
- Zdeněk Fibich (1850 - 1900)
- Niels Gade (1817 - 1890)
- Karl Goldmark (1830 - 1915)
- Charles Gounod (1818 - 1893)
- Edvard Grieg (1843 - 1907)
- Alexandre Guilmant (1837 - 1911)
- Engelbert Humperdinck (1854 - 1921)
- Edouard Lalo (1823 - 1892)
- Albert Lortzing (1801 - 1851)
- Fanny Mendelssohn (1805 - 1847)
- Moritz Moszkowski (1854 - 1925)
- Otto Nicolai (1810 - 1849)
- Vítězslav Novák (1870 - 1949)
- Hubert Parry (1848 - 1918)
- Joachim Raff (1822 - 1882)
- Max Reger (1873 - 1916)
- Carl Reinecke (1824 - 1910)
- Josef von Rheinberger (1839 - 1901)
- Anton Rubinstein (1829 - 1894)
- Camille Saint-Saëns (1835 - 1921)
- Clara Schumann (1819 - 1896)
- Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)
- Bedřich Smetana (1824 - 1884)
- Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 - 1924)
- Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 - 1927)
- Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
- Arthur Sullivan (1842 - 1900)
- Johan Svendsen (1840 - 1911)
- Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
- Charles-Marie Widor (1844 - 1937)
- George Whitefield Chadwick (1854 - 1931)
- Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937)
- Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (1875 - 1912)
- Robert Franz (1815 - 1892)
- Johann Hartmann (1726 - 1793)
Felix Mendelssohn has teached William Smyth Rockstro, Gustav Nottebohm, Eduard Franck, Richard Wüerst, Friedrich Hermann, Camille-Marie Stamaty, Hubert Ferdinand Kufferath, Johann Karl Eschmann, Charles Edward Horsley, Louis Ehlert, Robert Schaab, Julius Ernst Christian Johannsen, Julius Tausch, Friedrich Hieronymus Truhn.
Felix Mendelssohn: some musical similarities
Do you like Felix Mendelssohn's work? Then you might appreciate the work of these composers, some of which have significant similarities :
Family and affectional bonds
Only people having a connection with music are cited here.
Felix Mendelssohn: relationships with orchestras/ensembles
As conductor: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (principal, from 1845 to 1847), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (principal, from 1835 to 1843).
Note: Influence and similarity relationships are not the result of personal preferences or artistic opinion. They come from a data analysis method, based on publications of Pr. Charles H. Smith (Western Kentucky University, USA) and Pr. Patrick Georges (University of Ottawa, Canada). See copyrights page (section 2. Contents) (...)
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