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The Mendelssohn family are the descendants of Mendel of Dessau. The German Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and his brother Saul were the first to adopt the surname Mendelssohn. The family includes his grandchildren, the composers Fanny Mendelssohn and Felix .
Felix Mendelssohn aged 12 (1821) by Carl Joseph Begas. Felix Mendelssohn was born on 3 February 1809, in Hamburg, at the time an independent city-state, [n 4] in the same house where, a year later, the dedicatee and first performer of his Violin Concerto, Ferdinand David, would be born. [4]
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847), noted early Romantic composer, son of Abraham; Rebecka Mendelssohn (1811–1858), daughter of Abraham, married Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician; Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1841–1880), German chemist, son of Felix; Arnold Mendelssohn (1855–1933), great-grandson of Moses, composer and music ...
Lea and Abraham's children were Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Mendelssohn (Jakob persuaded Abraham Mendelssohn to adopt the Bartholdy surname). It was Bella who, "unaware of Felix's baptism", gave a manuscript of Bach's St. Matthew Passion to her grandson Felix Mendelssohn in 1824. [1]
Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, as drawn by his son-in-law Wilhelm Hensel. Abraham Ernst Mendelssohn Bartholdy (born Abraham Mendelssohn; 10 December 1776 – 19 November 1835) [1] was a German Jewish banker and philanthropist. He was the father of Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix Mendelssohn, Rebecka Mendelssohn, and Paul Mendelssohn.
Sebastian Hensel was born on June 16, 1830, the son of the pianist and composer Fanny Mendelssohn (1805–1847) and painter Wilhelm Hensel (1794–1861) in Berlin. The composer Felix Mendelssohn was his uncle, the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn his great-grandfather. Sebastian was the only surviving child of his parents.
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