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In 1845 he returns to the post of conductor of the Gewandhaus concerts at Leipzig and teaches the piano and composition at the Conservatory there. A couple years later his sister Fanny died leaving him devastated and he began to deteriorate rapidly. The two were close and she had also composed and played the piano. Mendelssohn died on November 4, 1847 at the age of 38 in Leipzig, Germany. His cause of death was a ruptured blood vessel.

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In 1843, prior to the completion of another work, Mendelssohn founded the Leipzig Conservatory of Music and became its director. The conservatory was housed in a two-story building which the town council had newly constructed in the courtyard of the Gewandhaus. By the summer, there were over forty students that attended.

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In Berlin, he began to take piano lessons from his mother and studied composition. When Mendelssohn was 7 years old he expanded his lessons by studying under Marie Bigot during a trip to Paris. In the musical prodigy’s early years he composed five operas and 11 symphonies. As a child Mendelssohn took up drawing and painting as hobbies and took foreign
languages.

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In 1837 Felix Mendelssohn married Cecile Jeanrenaud in Frankfurt. Jeanrenaud was the daughter of prominent members of Frankfurt’s Huguenot aristocracy and was
one of three children. Together the couple had five children over the course of eight years. Their names were Paul, Marie, Felix, Karl, and Lilli.

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Felix Mendelssohn was born on February 3, 1809, in Hamburg, Germany. He was the second born of four and though his full name is Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy he was better known as Felix Mendelssohn. He grew up in a privileged environment and had loving parents that helped encourage him to reach his dreams.