Felix Mendelssohn
![Portrait of Mendelssohn by the English miniaturist James Warren Childe (1778–1862), 1839](/Images/godic/202501/26/Mendelssohn_Bartholdy4125.jpg")
![Mendelssohn aged 12 (1821) by Carl Joseph Begas](/Images/godic/202501/26/Mendelssohn_Bartholdy_18214125.jpg")
![First page of the manuscript of Mendelssohn's Octet (1825) (now in the US Library of Congress)](/Images/godic/202501/26/Octetp14125.jpg")
![Felix Mendelssohn's study in Leipzig](/Images/godic/202501/26/Felix_Mendelssohn_Leipzig_study;_Contemporary_view4125.jpg")
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (German:[ˈjaːkɔp ˈluːtvɪç ˈfeːlɪks ˈmɛndl̩szoːn baʁˈtɔldi]; 3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.