Mendelssohnian

Sweet melody coupled with passages of virtuosic fire, underpinned with graceful, discreet orchestral writing mark them out as ... well, enjoyably Mendelssohnian.

David: Violin concertos Nos 4 & 5, Andante and Scherzo capriccioso – review Stephen Pritchard 2010

Their playing was no less gorgeous in Schumann's "Marchenerzahlungen," with its elfin, Mendelssohnian phrases and glowing writing that prefigure the fairy-tale operas of Humperdinck.

A superlative performance by the Schumann Trio 2011

These recordings also made people aware of the work of some of the great Broadway orchestrators, like Frank Saddler, Robert Russell Bennett, and particularly Hans Spialek an immigrant who orchestrated Rodgers and Hart and Porter in a gossamer-light, almost Mendelssohnian style.

John McGlinn, 1953-2009 Jaime J. Weinman 2009

Liszt is remembered today as the most important creator of the Golden Age, but it is the Mendelssohnian tradition that now holds sway.

What Music Has Lost James F. Penrose 2008

It also adds a Mendelssohnian argument about the simplicity of the soul; and, most surprisingly, includes a digression on aesthetic judgment that anticipates a central argument of his subsequent Essay on Taste.

18th Century German Aesthetics Guyer, Paul 2007

However, as the son of a second-generation Englishman with Mendelssohnian sympathies, Disraeli was historically

Spector - Criticism - Critical Contexts 2002

England, he deplores the degeneracy of Judaism, attributing it to the ascendency of the Mendelssohnian school, and he foresees the approach of anti-Semitism.

The Renascence of Hebrew Literature (1743-1885) Nahum Slouschz 1919

The work is frequently Mendelssohnian in treatment.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

Ann Veronica had got quite interested in Mr. Bribble's rendering of the service -- he had the sort of voice that brings out things -- and was still teeming with ideas about it when finally a wild outburst from the organ made it clear that, whatever snivelling there might be down in the chancel, that excellent wind instrument was, in its Mendelssohnian way, as glad as ever it could be.

Ann Veronica: A Modern Love Story Herbert George 1909

Ann Veronica had got quite interested in Mr. Bribble's rendering of the service -- he had the sort of voice that brings out things -- and was still teeming with ideas about it when finally a wild outburst from the organ made it clear that, whatever snivelling there might be down in the chancel, that excellent wind instrument was, in its Mendelssohnian way, as glad as ever it could be.

Ann Veronica, a modern love story 1906