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The Mendelssohn Scholarship (German: Mendelssohn-Stipendium) refers to two scholarships awarded in Germany and in the United Kingdom. Both commemorate the composer Felix Mendelssohn, and are awarded to promising young musicians to enable them to continue their development.




History


Shortly after Mendelssohn's death in 1847, a group of his friends and admirers formed a committee in London to establish a scholarship to enable musicians to study at the Leipzig Conservatoire, which Mendelssohn had founded in 1843. Their fundraising included a performance of Mendelssohn's Elijah in 1848, featuring Jenny Lind. The link between London and Leipzig fell through, resulting in two Mendelssohn Scholarships.




Mendelssohn Scholarship in Germany


In Germany, the Mendelssohn Scholarship was established in the 1870s as two awards of 1500 Marks, one for composition and one for performance, for any student of a music school in Germany, and was funded by the Prussian state as part of an arrangement under which the Mendelssohn family donated the composer's manuscripts to the state. The first recipient was the composer, Engelbert Humperdinck, who used it to travel to Italy in 1879.
Funded by the Jewish Mendelssohn family, the award was discontinued by the Nazis in 1934. It was revived by the Ministry of Culture of the former East Germany in 1963, in the form of two annual prizes for composition and for performance. It is now awarded by the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation.




= Recipients

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As well as Humperdinck, famous recipients include the pianist Wilhelm Kempff and the composer Kurt Weill.
The following is an incomplete chronological list of recipients of the German Mendelssohn Scholarship.



1879 to 1934

1879 – Engelbert Humperdinck, Josef Kotek, Johann Kruse, Ernst Seyffardt
1880 – Marie Soldat, Carl Wolf (composition)
1881 – Bernhard Stavenhagen, Andreas Moser, Johann Kruse, Ethel Smyth, Philipp Wolfrum, Adam Alex, Sophie Braun, Fritz Kaufmann (composition), Gotthold Knauth (piano), Alfred Sormann (piano)
1882 – Marie Soldat (violin), Martin Gebhardt (organ), Elsa Harriers (voice), Marie Harzer (voice), Karl Prill (violin), Arnold Mendelssohn (composition), Carl Schneider (composition)
1883 – Alex Adam, Albert Gorter (composition), Marie Harzer (voice), Hedwig Meyer (piano), Martha Schwieder (piano), Ernst Seyffardt (composition), Georg Stoltzenberg (composition), Elise Tannenberg (piano), Gabriele Wietrowetz (violin), Margarethe Witt (violin)
1884 – Carl Grothe (composition), Anna Haasters (piano), Solma Krause (piano), Max Puchat (composition), Carl Schneider (composition)
1885 – Gabriele Wietrowetz, Ida Beckmann (violin), Marie Mette (voice), Fanny Richter (piano), Georg Stoltzenberg (composition), Margarete Will (piano)
1886 – Charles Gregorowitsch (violin; also 1887, 1888), Hermann Kindler (cello), Geraldine Morgan (violin; also 1887), Bernhard Pfannstiel (organ; also 1887, 1888), Olga von Radecke (piano)
1887 – Waldemar von Baußnern, Heinrich van Eyken, Peter Fassbänder, Felix Odenwald
1888 – Fanny Richter (piano), Percy Sherwood (piano; also 1889), Eduard Behm (also 1890, 1891), Mathieu Neumann, Ewald Strasser, Lucy Campbell (cello; also 1890)
1890 – Bram Eldering, Carl Markees (violin), Hermann von Roner (violin), Elisabeth Rouge (piano), August Schmidt (piano) E. van Dooren (also 1892), Martin Grabert, Friedrich Koch, Max Oppitz (clarinet), Carl Piening (cello)
1891 – Rudolf Lentz (violin; also 1892, 1893), Mina Rode (violin; also 1894), Betty Schwabe (violin), Felice Kirchdorffer (piano)
1892 – Helene Jordan (voice), Rosa Schindler (violin), Lina Mayer (piano)
1893 – Carl Thiel, Leo Schrattenholz, Louis Saar, Nellie Kühler (piano), Amelia Heineberg (piano), Olga von Lerdahely (violin), Kati Macdonald (piano), Lizzie Reynolds (piano)
1894 – Heinrich Bendler (piano), Dietrich Schäfer (piano), Toni Tholfus (piano), May C. Taylor (composition)
1895 – Elsie Stanley Hall,
1896 – Paul Juon, Walter Bachmann (piano), Juanita Brockmann (violin; also 1899, 1904)
1889 – Percy Sherwood
1900 – Karl Klingler
1901 – Elly Ney
1902 – Alfred Sittard
1902 – Ignatz Waghalter
1904 – Eugenie Stoltz (honorable mention)
1904 – Mae Doelling (1888–1965), piano
1905 – Eugenie Stoltz
1906 – Sara Gurowitsch
1909 – Samuel Lieberson
1910 & 1913 – Ernst Toch
1912 – Licco Amar
1913 – Hans Bassermann, Mischa Levitzki, Max Trapp
1913 & 1918 – Erwin Schulhoff
1915 –
1917 – Wilhelm Kempff, Emil Peeters
1918 – Pancho Vladigerov
1919 – Kurt Weill
1920 – Pancho Vladigerov
1925 – Berthold Goldschmidt, Max Rostal
1926 – Ignace Strasfogel, Ernst Pepping
1928 – Hans Humpert
1928 – Grete von Zieritz
1928 – Wilhelm Stross
1929 – Herbert Marx
1930 – Ludwig Hölscher
1931 – Kurt Fiebig, Roman Totenberg, Artur Balsam
1932 – Norbert von Hannenheim, Harald Genzmer
1933 – Werner Trenkner, Bernhard Heiden, Karlrobert Kreiten
1935 – Fritz Werner, Johannes Schneider-Marfels



Since 1963

1965 – Peter Herrmann
1966 – Walter Steffens
1974/75 – Gabriele Kupfernagel
1976/77 – Reinhard Wolschina
1978/80 – Walter Thomas Heyn
1981 – Bernd Franke
1985 – Rolf Fischer
1987 – Olaf Henzold
1988 – Steffen Schleiermacher
1988/89 – Caspar René Hirschfeld
Carola Nasdala
Michael Schönheit
Michael Stöckigt
Matthias Henneberg




Mendelssohn Scholarship in the United Kingdom



The funds raised at the 1848 concert were invested and allowed to accumulate until 1856, when Arthur Sullivan was elected as the first scholar. Since then it has been awarded from time to time, administered by the Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation, which is linked to the Royal Academy of Music. The foundation was created by a trust deed in 1871. Its trustees include the composers Anthony Payne and Justin Connolly, and the principal of the Royal Academy of Music, Jonathan Freeman-Attwood; and its charitable objects are "For the education of musical students of both sexes in pursuance of the intentions of the founders".




= Recipients

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Recipients include the composers Frederick Corder, George Dyson, Malcolm Arnold and Kenneth Leighton.
The following is an incomplete chronological list of recipients of the British Mendelssohn Scholarship.

1856 – Arthur Sullivan
1865 – Charles Swinnerton Heap
1871 – William Shakespeare
1873 – Eaton Faning
1875 – Frederick Corder
1879 – Maude Valérie White
1881 – Eugen d'Albert
1884 – Marie Wurm
1890 – S P Waddington
1895 – Christopher Wilson
1899 – Percy Hilder Miles
1905 – George Dyson
1909 – Eric William Gritton
1912 – Joseph Alan Taffs
1916 – Philip Levi
1921 – Arthur Lawrence Sandford
1923 – Percy Purvis Turnbull
1927 – Godfrey Sampson
1929 – David Moule-Evans
1932 – Clifton Ivor Walsworth
1935 – Daniel Jones
1948 – Malcolm Arnold
1951 – Kenneth Leighton
1954 – Francis Burt
1956 – John Exton
1960 – David Blake
1962 – Richard Stoker
1964 – Patric Standford
1968 – Brian Ferneyhough
1969 – Jonathan Lloyd
1972 – Nicola LeFanu
1974 – Richard Blackford
1979 – Lionel Sainsbury
1985 – James Harley
1986 – Javier Alvarez
1988 – Martin Butler
1997 – Richard Causton
2000 – Luke Bedford
2002 – Cheryl Frances-Hoad
2004 – Oliver Searle
2006 – Nadja Plein
2008 – Steven Daverson
2010 – Samuel Bordoli
2012 – Christian Mason
2014 – Arne Gieshoff
2016 – Nicholas Moroz
2018 – Nicholas Morrish
2020 – Angela Slater
2021 – Hugo Bell
2022 – Amelia Clarkson
2023 – Jasper Dommett




References






External links


Official website of the UK Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Mendelssohn Scholarship
• Felix Mendelssohn
• Wedding March (Mendelssohn)
• Jenny Lind
• Fanny Mendelssohn
• Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn)
• Moses Mendelssohn
• Symphony No. 5 (Mendelssohn)
• Symphony No. 3 (Mendelssohn)
• Elijah (oratorio)