It’s not common for 16-year-olds to compose a perfect masterpiece, but Felix Mendelssohn did exactly that with his String Octet of 1825. Saturday evening at the Bushnell Center for the Performing Arts ...

Experience the Mendelssohn Octet live at the free Chamber Classics event in Cape Girardeau on Dec. 1, hosted by the Southeast Symphony Society and the Kellerman Foundation. The Southeast Symphony ...

The 92nd Street Y, New York (92NY), will present the Emerson String Quartet and the Calidore Quartet: Mendelssohn's Octet and more on June 1, 2022 at 7:30pm ET. The performance kicks off The ...

It wasn't what you usually see in the last minutes before a symphony concert: No one was onstage. Where the violins and violas should've been, there weren't even chairs - just music stands. Only when ...

Fortunately the work happens to be a showstopper that never fades, full of vibrant energy, exciting virtuosity and dramatic ­pathos. Written, almost unbelievably, when the composer was only 16, the ...

(4) Pieces for String Quartet Manderling Quartet Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Octet for strings Manderling Quartet Felix Mendelssohn, Composer Cremona Quartet The Mandelring capture well the bustling ...

The Mendelssohn Octet: the St. Lawrence String Quartet and the Ying Quartet perform this classic in Studio 4A. They visit Washington every year to play the piece together at a local museum. (NPR) ...