Italian – Virtuoso!

For many, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy is the "Mozart of the 19th century" – that's what Robert Schumann once called him. It goes without saying that his music harmonizes with the works of the Viennese classic. But Mendelssohn, who grew up in Berlin, was more than this label suggests. He was considered an innovative head of the Romantic era and a rediscoverer of baroque vocal music. He brought his fourth symphony back from a trip to Italy, which h...