1, 1669 LOPEZ, Miquel
1, 1690 VERACINI, Francesco Maria
1, 1733 SCHULZE, Johann Philipp Christian
1, 1859 HERBERT, Victor
1, 1877 DUNHILL, Thomas Frederick
1, 1907 GUARNIERI, Mozart Camargo
2, 1669 MARCHAND, Louis
2, 1714 HOMILIUS, Gottfried August
2, 1804 MECHURA, Leopold Eugen
3, 1525 PALESTRINA, Giovanni Perluigi
3, 1736 ALBRECHTSBERGER, Johann Georg
3, 1809 MENDELSSOHN, Jacob Ludwig Felix
3, 1911 ALAIN, Jehan
4, 1549 DU CAURROY, François-Eustache
4, 1892 KILPINEN, Yrjo
5, 1868 MORTELMANS, Lodewijk
6, 1818 LITOLFF, Henry Charles
7, 1871 STENHAMMAR, Karl Wilhelm Eugen
7, 1897 PORTER, Quincy
8, 1741 GRETRY, Andre-Ernest-Modeste
9, 1885 BERG, Alban
10, 1696 MOLTER, Johann Melchior
11, 1830 BRONSART VON SCHELLENDORF, Hans
11, 1830 HEISE, Peter Arnold
12, 1760 DUSSEK, Jan Ladislav
12, 1886 BRUSSELMANS, Michel
12, 1898 HARRIS, Roy
13, 1778 SOR, Fernando
13, 1870 GODOWSKY, Leopold
14, 1679 KAUFFMANN, Georg Friedrich
14, 1813 DARGOMYZHSKY, Alexander
14, 1882 FRIEDMAN, Ignaz
15, 1571 PRAETORIUS, Michael
15, 1847 FUCHS, Robert
16, 1709 AVISON, Charles
16, 1847 SCHARWENKA, Ludwig Philipp
17, 1653 CORELLI, Arcangelo
17, 1820 VIEUXTEMPS, Henri
17, 1862 GERMAN, Sir Edward
17, 1887 MADETOYA, Leevi
18, 1939 NOBRE, Marlos
19, 1743 BOCCHERINI, Luigi
19, 1763 GYROWETZ, Adalbert
20, 1745 SALOMAN, Johann Peter
20, 1770 CARULLI, Ferdinando
20, 1791 CZERNY, Carl
20, 1802 BERIOT, Charles-Auguste de
21, 1801 KALLIWODA, Johann Wenzel
21, 1836 DELIBES, Clement-Philibert-Leo
21, 1844 WIDOR, Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert
21, 1893 SEGOVIA, Andres
22, 1817 GADE, Niels Wilhelm
22, 1834 ZABEL, Albert Heinrich
23, 1648 BLOW, John
23, 1685 HANDEL, George Frideric
24, 1766 WESLEY, Samuel
24, 1771 CRAMER, John Baptist
25, 1727 COUPERIN, Armand-Louis
26, 1770 REICHA, Anton
26, 1879 BRIDGE, Frank
27, 1848 PARRY, Sir Charles Hubert Hastings
28, 1808 PARISH-ALVERS, Elias
28, 1854 ZAREBSKI, Juliusz
28, 1876 CARPENTER, John Alden
28, 1877 BORTKIEWICZ, Sergei
29, 1792 ROSSINI, Gioachino Antonio
29, 1852 COWEN, Sir Frederic Hymen
Felix Mendelssohn, grandson of the distinguished Jewish thinker Moses Mendelssohn, the additional surname Bartholdy adopted on his conversion to Christianity, was born in Hamburg, the son of a banker. The family moved to Berlin, where Mendelssohn was brought up, able to associate with a cultured circle of family friends. He was associated with the revival of public interest in the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and in the early 1830s travelled abroad for his education, spending time in Italy and also visiting England, Wales and Scotland. He was later conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra in Leipzig, where he also established a Conservatory, his stay there interrupted briefly by a return to Berlin. He died in Leipzig in 1847. Prolific and precocious, Mendelssohn had many gifts, musically as composer, conductor and pianist. His style of composition combined something of the economy of means of the classical period with the romanticism of a later age.