Today is the two hundredth birthday of my most illustrious ancestor (as far as I know) Felix Mendelssohn. My mothers family are apparently descended from his sister Fanny. Personally I have never really cared for most of Mendelssohn's music, which I find rather tepid and uninspiring, but he did write a few beautiful pieces in his time, no doubt about that. Here to celebrate his birthday is Mendlessohn's brilliant overture, "Die Hebriden" (Fingal's Cave).
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