FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY
FAMOUS COMPOSERS
FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY
Monograph Number Two in The Mentor Reading Course
The life of Felix Mendelssohn strikes one because of its remarkable activity, begun at a very early age. The son of a wealthy banker, he was born at Hamburg on February 3, 1809. As the French occupied Hamburg in 1811, it was necessary for the Mendelssohn family to move to Berlin, where Felix received his first training from his mother.
At the age of eleven Felix was composing with extraordinary rapidity, producing sixty pieces during the first year of composition, and the next year he was writing opera.