Sentence examples for instead of Mendelssohn from inspiring English sources

Instead of Mendelssohn, think Mahler.

In light of the ensemble's enthusiasm for "Dim Sum" and other imaginative projects, a listener would have preferred to hear more contemporary works instead of the highly competent but mostly unmemorable performances of Mendelssohn's String Quartet No. 1 and Dvorak's String Quartet No. 14.

A reprise of his "Midsummer Night's Dream" would have been welcome, but Mr. Masur instead offered a varied program that touched on several sides of Mendelssohn: a dramatic overture, a concerto and a big choral rarity.

Instead, umbrellas popped up like mushrooms on a lawn as the rain grew steadier during an appropriately brisk, breezy account of Mendelssohn's Overture to "A Midsummer Night's Dream".

On the day of the premiere, David was the soloist, but Mendelssohn, who was ill, could not conduct his new work, so the orchestra was led instead by Mendelssohn's assistant, Danish conductor and composer Niels Gade.

Haydn died in 1809, the year of Mendelssohn's birth.

I remember one of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words.

The piece holds its own with the oratorios of Mendelssohn.

Even Wagner, no fan of Mendelssohn's, admired the Romantic, poetic qualities of this symphony.

"He never lost control of himself," Wagner once said of Mendelssohn.

"Masterpieces for Eight" is the focus here: the Octets of Mendelssohn and Schubert.