Arnold Mendelssohn
Germany, 1880–1933
German composer and teacher (1855-1933), full name Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn and a great-nephew of Felix Mendelssohn's generation of the family. A lawyer turned church musician, he led the revival of Bach and Schutz in Lutheran music and taught composition in Darmstadt and Frankfurt, where his pupils included the young Paul Hindemith.
MusicRoots documents 2 artists who influenced Arnold Mendelssohn and 1 artist Arnold Mendelssohn influenced in turn. Every connection cites a published source.
Who influenced Arnold Mendelssohn?
- Heinrich Schütz — Mendelssohn led the revival of Schutz in German church music and took the older master's polyphonic liturgical idiom into his own writing.
- Johann Sebastian Bach — Bach was the other pillar of the church-music revival Mendelssohn championed, and the source of the counterpoint in his own liturgical works.
Which artists did Arnold Mendelssohn influence?
- Paul Hindemith — Mendelssohn was Hindemith's first composition teacher and the man who gave him his taste for religious music - the thread that runs to Mathis der Maler and the late sacred works.