Felix Mendelssohn Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for "A Midsummer Night's Dream", the "Italian Symphony", the "Scottish Symphony", the overture "The Hebrides", his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His "Songs Without Words" are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film) and voice work by Alec McCowen. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959 film) A Midsummer Night's Dream () is a 1959 Czechoslovak animated puppet film directed by Jiří Trnka. It is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. Trnka, working under the Czech communist regime who had previously been denied in his wish to adapt "Don Quixote", worked for several years on his adaptation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream". The film established a new pinnacle of craftmanship: Cerise Howard, discussing the film in a retrospective on Trnka for "Senses of Cinema", describes the puppet animation as "more liquid, more