MENDELSSOHN

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• MENDELSSOHN (noun)
  The noun MENDELSSOHN has 1 sense:

1. German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847)

  Familiarity information: MENDELSSOHN used as a noun is very rare.

• MENDELSSOHN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

German musician and romantic composer of orchestral and choral works (1809-1847)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Felix Mendelssohn; Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy; Mendelssohn

Instance hypernyms:

composer (someone who composes music as a profession)

 Context examples 

Returning from one of Mozart's grand operas, splendidly performed at the Royal Theatre, he looked over his own, played a few of the best parts, sat staring at the busts of Mendelssohn, Beethoven, and Bach, who stared benignly back again.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

As Tom took up the receiver the compressed heat exploded into sound and we were listening to the portentous chords of Mendelssohn's Wedding March from the ballroom below.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)