Felix Mendelssohn was born in Hamburg on February 3, 1809, he was the son of Leah Salomon and Abraham
...tructions from Carl Zelter in Berlin. When he was still only a child he began composing chamber works. He wrote his first chamber music at the age of ten. Although his most famous was C double string quartet, which was written for his 23rd birthday in 1825. By the time Mendelssohn was seventeen, his fame as a musical prodigy was spreading; that year, his first great composition - the overture to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - was produced. He wrote five symphonies and he was only 12. The concert overtures include the 1826 overture. Then best known work is his concertos. He has at least ten.his first was written in 1831.When he was 16 he composed his Octet for strings in E flat major and Op 20 which was just impressive because of his age. but because it was his first major peice.From 1826 to 1829 h...