The Mendelssohn Project


	RECORDING THE COMPLETE WORKS OF FELIX AND FANNY MENDELSSOHN Since the inception of The Mendelssohn Project in 1996, the core goal has been to record on CD the complete works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Before TMP's efforts, no organization has attempted this before; the primary reason for this has been due to the overwhelming amount of unpublished and lost works of the two 19th Century composers. Overcoming this problem, The Mendelssohn Project, with their research team, has located and catalogued the world's most thorough and complete list of music by these two composers. In addition, to the best knowledge of The Mendelssohn Project, no organization has attempted to record even the complete known-works by either composer. In the case of Fanny Mendelssohn, this is understandable because virtually none of the music by this great talent has ever been given a hearing due to the fact that she was a woman from a time where women were meant to be good housewives and not active creators of art. Sadly, the perception carried by the world into the 21st century of creative women of past eras carries over into what people think of them today. The Mendelssohn Project believes that the music world is ready to celebrate the vast creative output by this musical genius. That no organization has attempted a complete series of Felix Mendelssohn's known-works is less understandable. Granted, there are so many holes in the public's knowledge about what he wrote, and who he was; but there are indeed many works by Mendelssohn which are well-known and beloved, such as Elijah, the E-Minor Violin Concerto, the Overture and Wedding March to A Midsummer Night's Dream, the first version of the "Italian" Symphony, the Songs without Words, and so much more. Felix Mendelssohn can also be called the greatest choral composer of the 19th century; not only for his voluminous output in that genre, but also that so many of those works are considered staples in churches around the world. Also, if one simply flips through the hundreds of channels available to the world through cable television, it is rare that one can get through from channel 1 to channel 500+ without hearing some Mendelssohn in some cartoon, religion, or movie channel. This only shows that his music is as accessible and marketable today as it was in his own time. After what will be a almost a full thirteen years of research into their works, the recording of the complete works of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn by The Mendelssohn Project is planned to begin in 2009. The works of Felix Mendelssohn will comprise of about 120 CDs, and the recording of Fanny Mendelssohn's complete opus will comprise of around 40. Similar project have been undertaken for the complete music of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, among others, and have all been successful. The novelty with what The Mendelssohn Project is doing is that it is planning to take two composers, one well-known, and the other forgotten, and create a complete series of their work and at the same time introduce the public to the over 270 unpublished works by Felix Mendelssohn and close to 200 by his magnificent sister, Fanny. The release of these CDs will be accompanied and underscored by the many other activities of The Mendelssohn Project outlined in this website. See: The Complete Works List of Felix Mendelssohn The Complete Works List of Fanny Mendelssohn < Back

RECORDING THE COMPLETE WORKS OF
FELIX AND FANNY MENDELSSOHN

Since the inception of The Mendelssohn Project in 1996, the core goal has been to record on CD the complete works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Before TMP's efforts, no organization has attempted this before; the primary reason for this has been due to the overwhelming amount of unpublished and lost works of the two 19th Century composers. Overcoming this problem, The Mendelssohn Project, with their research team, has located and catalogued the world's most thorough and complete list of music by these two composers.

In addition, to the best knowledge of The Mendelssohn Project, no organization has attempted to record even the complete known-works by either composer. In the case of Fanny Mendelssohn, this is understandable because virtually none of the music by this great talent has ever been given a hearing due to the fact that she was a woman from a time where women were meant to be good housewives and not active creators of art. Sadly, the perception carried by the world into the 21st century of creative women of past eras carries over into what people think of them today. The Mendelssohn Project believes that the music world is ready to celebrate the vast creative output by this musical genius.

That no organization has attempted a complete series of Felix Mendelssohn's known-works is less understandable. Granted, there are so many holes in the public's knowledge about what he wrote, and who he was; but there are indeed many works by Mendelssohn which are well-known and beloved, such as Elijah, the E-Minor Violin Concerto, the Overture and Wedding March to A Midsummer Night's Dream, the first version of the "Italian" Symphony, the Songs without Words, and so much more.

Felix Mendelssohn can also be called the greatest choral composer of the 19th century; not only for his voluminous output in that genre, but also that so many of those works are considered staples in churches around the world.

Also, if one simply flips through the hundreds of channels available to the world through cable television, it is rare that one can get through from channel 1 to channel 500+ without hearing some Mendelssohn in some cartoon, religion, or movie channel. This only shows that his music is as accessible and marketable today as it was in his own time.

After what will be a almost a full thirteen years of research into their works, the recording of the complete works of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn by The Mendelssohn Project is planned to begin in 2009. The works of Felix Mendelssohn will comprise of about 120 CDs, and the recording of Fanny Mendelssohn's complete opus will comprise of around 40. Similar project have been undertaken for the complete music of Bach, Mozart and Beethoven, among others, and have all been successful. The novelty with what The Mendelssohn Project is doing is that it is planning to take two composers, one well-known, and the other forgotten, and create a complete series of their work and at the same time introduce the public to the over 270 unpublished works by Felix Mendelssohn and close to 200 by his magnificent sister, Fanny.

The release of these CDs will be accompanied and underscored by the many other activities of The Mendelssohn Project outlined in this website.

See: The Complete Works List of Felix Mendelssohn

The Complete Works List of Fanny Mendelssohn

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