MENDELSSOHN-HAUS - HOUSE OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY
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The famous composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847), who settled in Leipzig and became director of the Leipzig concert house, the Gewandhaus, spent the last two years of his life in this house, where he died. Felix was the grandson of the Jewish philosopher Moshe Mendelssohn, father of the Haskalah, the Enlightenment movement applied to the Jewish community, which advocated for Jews to emancipate themselves and leave communitarianism. Felix himself was an incarnation of this emancipation as a major composer of the romantic movement in Germany. This beautiful classic building on Goldschmidtstrasse is the only building still standing that is linked to Mendelssohn's life. Through informative panels and objects, it reconstructs the life and work of the composer of the famous Marche nuptiale, including many manuscripts, scores and watercolours. You can also see period furniture, a music room and the artist's work desk. The museum is certainly a tribute to the great Leipzig citizen Mendelssohn, but it is also an example of a bourgeois apartment as it was in Leipzig in the 1840s. High level musical concerts are regularly organised there.
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