Classical Music Pages - Biography extracts from Grove Dictionary of Music (by Matt Boynick).
Carolina Navy - Message board and live chat about his life and works.
Gagliano Recordings: Felix Mendelssohn - Biography, picture, and links.
Facility and Mastery: Felix Mendelssohn - Jeffrey Dane examines his life, conversion from Judaism to Christianity, works, and historical context.
Mfiles - Career highlights and selected music examples that can be seen as sheet music in Sibelius format.
Felix Mendelssohn - Biography of the composers life, including a portrait.
Classical Music Archives: Mendelssohn - Over 200 complete works by the composer offered in MIDI, MP3, and Windows Media audio formats, including live recordings of featured artists. Two biographies, including that from the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. Timelines, search engine.
Electronic Library - A short biography about the composer.
Classic Cat - Biographical information, links, and directory of available MP3 audio files.
IMDb: Mendelssohn Filmography - Lists movies in which his music was featured.
San Francisco Symphony - Program notes with detailed biography, family information, and comments on his works.
WQXR - Biography showing how he championed the works of others, including J. S. Bach, as well as writing and performing his own. Includes summary works list.
Cyber Hymnal: Felix Mendelssohn - Hymns in MIDI and NWC format with lyrics included.
Find A Grave: Felix Mendelssohn - A biography and musical commentary of the composers life. Pictures of his gravesite with an interactive memorial.
The Rec Music Foundation - List of vocal works with German lyrics, with English translations available.
Carolina Classical: Felix Mendelssohn - Biography listing his major works and his role as a leader in forming the Leipzig Conservatory of Music. Includes music samples in real audio format, and a collection of his Songs without Words in PDF format.
Wikipedia: Felix Mendelssohn - Article with biography, musical influence, bibliography, portrait, internal references to related people and topics, and links.
Mutopia - Collection of public domain scores and audio. Includes PDF, PNG, MIDI, and PS formats.
Hymnuts - Biography and a description of one of his most well known tunes.
Internet Public Library - Biography listed with others of the Romantic Era. Includes portrait.
Humanities Web - Brief biography, key works, suggested reading and recordings, timeline, quotes, links, and additional resources.
Kunst der Fuge - Biography and MIDI files.
Unique Tracks - Full recordings of the composer's violin concerto in D minor.
Lauras Midi Heaven - Some MIDI files from the composer.
The Michael O'Neal Singers - An article about the composer.
Record Hall: Felix Mendelssohn - A biography that critiques and analyzes the composer's style.
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809 - 1847) - Karadar dictionary entry with life, works, catalogue, portraits and other illustrations, related composers, and MIDI audio samples.
Naxos: Felix Mendelssohn - Biographical sketch, caricature, commentary on his forays into various musical genres, descriptions of the types of music he composed, and a discography.
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