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
Felix Mendelssohn
Category
Artists
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