Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionComposer
Date of Birth3 February 1809
CityHamburg, Germany
CountryGermany
sacred use trombone
The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.
music-is precise
It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise....
essence unity essence-of-beauty
The essence of beauty is unity in variety.
later-in-life bars genius
No one can bar me from joyfully proceeding on what the great masters have left us; after all, to rediscover everything again, should be understood to be unfounded. But one should however proceed on merit, and not simply repeat wat was. All genius, sincere, deserves his place, even though maybe later in life.
entire exactly german-composer hear individual music people regard speech whereas
People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.