A Life in Music – Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Part 2: From Berliner to cosmopolite
Following on from Felix Mendelssohn’s childhood and youth in Berlin, Philharmoniker violinist Cornelia Gartemann sheds light on the composer’s eventful travelling years in the second part of our series A Life in Music. On his way from Berliner to cosmopolite, Mendelssohn found creative inspiration in Scotland, a second home in London and not quite what he had hoped for in Italy...
Cornelia Gartemann
Category
Artists
© 2021 Berlin Phil Media GmbH
Our recommendations
- Kirill Petrenko and the Berliner Philharmoniker: Dawn of a new era
- Cathedrals of Culture – Wim Wenders’s film portrait of the Philharmonie
- Impressions of Herbert von Karajan
- A Life in Music – Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Part 1: A child prodigy in Berlin
- Living with Beethoven
- Philharmoniker – Our history, Part 1: The early years