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Felix Moscheles
Felix Stone Moscheles (8 February 1833 – 22 December 1917) was an English painter, peace activist and advocate of Esperanto.
Biography.
Born in London, Felix Moscheles was the son of the well-known pianist and music teacher Ignaz Moscheles and husband of the painter Margaret Moscheles. His godfather, after whom he was named, was the composer Felix Mendelssohn.
In the 1840s Mendelssohn founded Leipzig Conservatory and Moscheles' father took on a teaching post there. Felix attended the St. Thomas School and
University of Leeds, and published in 1888 by Ignaz's son (and Felix Mendelssohn's god-son), Felix Moscheles.
- Anon (1898). "Edward Dannreuther" in "Musical Times" 39/688 (1 October 1898).
- Moscheles, Charlotte, tr. A. D. Coleridge, "Life of Moscheles", 2 vols. London 1873
- Moscheles, Felix (ed.) (1888). "Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles", London.
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