Only Connect - Felix Mendelssohn <> Nicolo Paganini
How are these sitters connected?
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
by Conrad Cook, published by William Mackenzie, after Frederic Leighton, Baron Leighton
mid 19th century
NPG D5248
Nicolo Paganini
by Richard James Lane
published 1831
NPG D5451
The connection
In 1833, the Gazette reported that ‘Paganini, Mendelssohn and Lindley performed a trio for viola, guitar and violoncello (composed by Paganini), Mendelssohn playing the guitar part on the pianoforte…’
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