Music Of The Great Composers --

Felix Mendelssohn-Bartoldy--Part 6 The wish of his friends to have him appointed as a conductor ofthe famous Berlin sindakedemie was not ignored, though the place was given to Rungenhagen, an assistant of Zelter. Mendelssohn was, later, fully compensated by his nomination as director of the Gewandhaus concerts in Leipzig, an event which resulted in Leipsic becoming soon the musical center of Germany. The death of his father in 1835 matured Mendelssohn's de..