Arnold Mendelssohn

Arnold Ludwig Mendelssohn (26 December 1855 – 18 February 1933), was a German composer and music teacher. Life He was born in Ratibor, Province of Silesia, the son of Felix Mendelssohn’s cousin Wilhelm Mendelssohn who, in 1854, had married Louise Aimee Cauer (sister to Bertha Cauer). In 1885, Arnold Ludwig himself married his second cousin, Maria Cauer, daughter of Karl Cauer (sister of Ludwig Cauer). Mendelssohn was originally a lawyer before studying music at the Institut für Kirchenmusik in Berlin (1877–80). His teachers there were Karl August Haupt for the organ, Carl Albert Löschhorn for the piano and Eduard Grell, Friedrich Kiel and Wilhelm Taubert for composition. A series of musical appointments followed: music director and organist at Bonn University (1880–82), where he became friendly with the Bach scholar Philipp Spitta; music director in Bielefeld (1882–5); teacher of composition at the Cologne Conservatory (1885–90); and master of church music and professor at the conservatory in Darmstadt (1891–1912). After that he taught at the Frankfurt Conservatory where his students included Paul Hindemith and Kurt Thomas. He died in Darmstadt. After his death his works were banne