Anna Sanfilippo's articles with the keyword: Scultore

- - The bust is signed on the back: E. Rietschel. 1848 . Bust of Felix Mendelssohn , Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel German, 1848 Marble H: 23 1/2 x W: 15 1/2 x D: 10 in., Getty Museum, Los Angelos, California - Felix Mendelssohn, one of Germany’s most gifted composers, died tragically at the age of thirty-eight. A year later, Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel made this memorial bust for the Mendelssohn family. In imitation of ancien…

Thorwaldsen was a musician of no mean quality, and there was always a piano in his studio, to which he often turned for rest. When Felix Mendelssohn was in Rome he made the sculptor's workshop his headquarters, and sometimes the two would play "four hands," or Thorwaldsen would accompany the Songs without Words upon his violin. Gradually the number of the "elect" seemed to grow. It was regarded as a great sight to see the master at his work. And by degrees Thorwaldsen reached a p…