In 1829 Felix Mendelssohn visited the Hebrides, a group of islands off the coast of Scotland. This trip inspired him to write his famous “Hebrides Overture”. Now, two Cambridge academics have adapted ...

Felix Mendelssohn's The Hebrides was inspired by the composer's 1829 trip to the British Isles. His overture has now inspired collaboration between a Cambridge economist and a composer, using sound to ...

THE score of one of Felix Mendelssohn's most celebrated works, the Hebrides Overture, is set to fetch up to (pounds) 700,000 at auction. The composition, inspired by the sights and sounds of Mull, ...

The score, from 1832, is said never to have been sold and thus to be the last major manuscript of Mendelssohn to appear on the market. He gave it to his friend and pupil William Sterndale Bennett in ...

Mendelssohn visited Scotland in 1829 when he was just 20 years of age. He didn’t care for the local music, but his visit there at the start of his celebrated "Grand Tour" of Europe resulted in two of ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Violinist-of-the-moment Ibragimova, accompanied by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Vladimir Jurowski, ...

The rocky west coast of Scotland is known as the Hebrides (HEB-rid-deez). Felix Mendelssohn took a tour of the tiny islands there once. As his boat passed by a cave near the Island of Staffa (STA-fah) ...

Mendelssohn visited the cave in 1829 while on a tour of Scotland A Scots writer has suggested a new link between the famous Felix Mendelssohn composition Hebrides Overture and the Scottish landmark ...

Violinist Isabelle Faust applies a light, even spectral tone to the famous melody of the first movement of Felix Mendelssohn's violin concerto. It's an approach that demands complete confidence, which ...

A Scots writer has suggested a new link between the famous Felix Mendelssohn composition Hebrides Overture and the Scottish landmark which inspired it. Iain Thornber claims the work, also known as ...