His marriage to Cecile Jeanrenaud produced five children, though he was much closer to his sister Fanny, who died shortly before he did.
Some of this composer's music was accompanied by a sequence of paintings by the Viennese painter Moritz von Schwind about a fairy tale on a water sprite, The Lovable Melusine. His operas include The Marriage of Comacho, Son and Stranger, and the unfinished Loreley, and among the six plays he produced incidental music for are Athalie and Antigone. His marriage to Cecile Jeanrenaud produced five children, though he was much closer to his sister Fanny, who died shortly before he did. FTP, name this composer of the Ruy Blas overture, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and Songs Without Words, a 19th century German better known for the Elijah oratorio and the Italian and Scottish symphonies.
Some of this composer's music was accompanied by a sequence of paintings by the Viennese painter Moritz von Schwind about a fairy tale on a water sprite, The Lovable Melusine.
Felix {Mendelssohn} Bartholdy