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Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
1809 - 1847 Person Name: Mendelssohn, 1809-1847 Composer of "WOODLANDS" in The Sunday School Hymnary Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (b. Hamburg, Germany, 1809; d. Leipzig, Germany, 1847) was the son of banker Abraham Mendelssohn and the grandson of philosopher Moses Mendelssohn. His Jewish family became Christian and took the Bartholdy name (name of the estate of Mendelssohn's uncle) when baptized into the Lutheran church. The children all received an excellent musical education. Mendelssohn had his first public performance at the age of nine and by the age of sixteen had written several symphonies. Profoundly influenced by J. S. Bach's music, he conducted a performance of the St. Matthew Passion in 1829 (at age 20!) – the first performance since Bach's death, thus reintroducing Bach to the world. Mendelssohn organized the Domchor in Berlin and founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music in 1843. Traveling widely, he not only became familiar with various styles of music but also became well known himself in countries other than Germany, especially in England. He left a rich treasury of music: organ and piano works, overtures and incidental music, oratorios (including St. Paul or Elijah and choral works, and symphonies. He harmonized a number of hymn tunes himself, but hymnbook editors also arranged some of his other tunes into hymn tunes.
Bert Polman
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Edith Lovell Thomas
1878 - 1970 Author of "Beside the sea" in A First Book in Hymns and Worship
Edith Lovell Thomas
Isabella Middlemass
Person Name: D. Middlemass Author of "O see the sky" in The Sunday School Hymnary Middlemass, Isabella, is a native of Edinburgh. She has published a set of seven original Hymns for the Little Ones by D. M., n.d. (1892), including “0 see the sky, so blue, so high.” [God's Care.] Written in 1891 to the tune by Mendelssohn, set to it in 1892 as above, and again in the Sunday School Hymnary, 1905.
[Rev. James Mearns, M.A.]
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)
Isabella Middlemass
