Mendelssohn, Félix
(1809–1847)> COMPOSER
Mendelssohn, Félix (3 February 1809, Hamburg; 4 November 1847, Leipzig), composer, had only a slight connection with the Opéra in Paris despite his 1825 visit to the French capital, where he met Jacques Halévy , Chrétien Kalkbrenner , Giacomo Meyerbeer , and Ferdinand Paër (see eighteenth-century volume for Kalkbrenner). Queen Marie of Rumania used extracts from his work in composing the score of Le Lys de la vie , which was performed only once at the Opéra by Loïe Fuller on 1 July 1920. Also…