List of Famous people with last name Mendelssohn

Fanny Mendelssohn

First Name Fanny
Last Name Mendelssohn
Died on May 14, 1847
Born in Germany

Fanny Mendelssohn, later Fanny [Cäcilie] Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel, also referred to as Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era. Her compositions include a piano trio, a piano quartet, an orchestral overture, four cantatas, more than 125 pieces for the piano, and over 250 lieder, most of which went unpublished in her lifetime. Although praised for her piano technique, she rarely gave public performances outside her family circle.

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Felix Mendelssohn

First Name Felix
Last Name Mendelssohn
Died on November 4, 1847
Born in Germany

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. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music, organ music and chamber music. His best-known works include the overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio St. Paul, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, the mature Violin Concerto and the String Octet. The melody for the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is also his. Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions.

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Moses Mendelssohn

First Name Moses
Last Name Mendelssohn
Born on September 6, 1729
Died on January 4, 1786 (aged 56)

Moses Mendelssohn was a German-Jewish philosopher to whose ideas the Haskalah, the 'Jewish Enlightenment' of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, is indebted.

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Joseph Mendelssohn

First Name Joseph
Last Name Mendelssohn
Born on August 11, 1770
Died on November 24, 1848 (aged 78)
Born in Germany

Joseph Mendelssohn was a German Jewish banker.

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Nathan Mendelssohn

First Name Nathan
Last Name Mendelssohn
Born on December 8, 1781
Died on January 9, 1852 (aged 70)
Born in Germany
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Rebecka Mendelssohn

First Name Rebecka
Born on April 11, 1811
Died on December 1, 1858 (aged 47)
Born in Germany

Johann Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet was a German mathematician who made deep contributions to number theory, and to the theory of Fourier series and other topics in mathematical analysis; he is credited with being one of the first mathematicians to give the modern formal definition of a function.

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Peter de Mendelssohn

First Name Peter
Last Name Mendelssohn
Born on June 1, 1908
Died on August 10, 1982 (aged 74)
Born in Germany, Bavaria

Peter von Mendelssohn (1908–1982) was a German writer and historian. Of Jewish heritage he was forced to leave Germany following the Nazi Party's rise to power in 1933. He become a prominent member of the exile community, along with figures such as Thomas Mann. In 1936 settled in Britain where he became a naturalised subject. His 1932 novel Schmerzliches Arkadien was adapted into a 1955 film Marianne of My Youth.

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Felix de Mendelssohn

First Name Felix
Last Name Mendelssohn
Born on January 1, 1944
Died on October 7, 2016 (aged 72)
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Alexander Mendelssohn

First Name Alexander
Last Name Mendelssohn
Born on September 19, 1798
Died on October 25, 1871 (aged 73)
Born in Germany
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Franz von Mendelssohn

First Name Franz
Last Name Mendelssohn
Born on January 25, 1829
Died on February 20, 1889 (aged 60)
Born in Germany
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