Felix Mendelssohn (Bartholdy) (1809-1847) wrote 8 different collections consisting of 6 songs each in his Lieder Ohne Worte.
Mendelssohn, often credited with re-familiarizing Europe with the forgotten or neglected works of Johann Sebastian Bach, had a very short but interesting life.
From the bio listed in the link below...
While Moses Mendelssohn frowned on German Jews converting to Christianity in the hopes of gaining social acceptance outside their ghettos, that did not stop Felix Mendelssohn's parents from baptizing their four children, Fanny, Rebekah, Felix, and Paul, in the Lutheran Church, and from converting to the Lutheran faith themselves in 1816, when they moved from French occupied Hamburg to Berlin, hence the added surname Bartholdy. Oddly enough, Felix resisted the name change, and kept the last name of Mendelssohn.
Listen to all 8 books of these melodic masterpieces at...
Jerusalem Music Center
or at...
Rhapsody
