People often complain that music is too ambiguous... whereas everyone understands words. With me it is exactly the reverse... what the music I love expresses to me are thoughts not too indefinite to be put into words, but on the contrary, too definite.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Born in Hamburg in 1809, Felix Mendelssohn was a composer, pianist, organist, and conductor of the early Romantic era. The grandson of Jewish philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, he was a prodigy who composed the String Octet and A Midsummer Night's Dream overture as a teenager. His 1829 revival of Bach's St Matthew Passion pioneered the rediscovery of Bach. He founded the Leipzig Conservatory, and his Violin Concerto in E minor remains one of the most beloved Romantic concertos. He died at thirty-eight.
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