Felix Mendelssohn 3 Fantaisies

Felix Mendelssohn (1809 1847), 3 Fantaisies, (1829) Performed by Benjamin Firth 00:00 No. 1 Andante con moto. 05:04 No. 2 Scherzo: Presto 07:34 No. 3 Andante While returning to London from his Scottish sojourn in 1829, Mendelssohn made an excursion to northern Wales, where he visited the family of John Taylor (17791863), an English mining engineer who owned a summer residence in Flintshire. (Taylors sister, Sarah Austin, was a member of the circle of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, a