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The '''Mendelssohn Scholarship''' ({{lang-de|Mendelssohn-Stipendium}}) refers to two scholarships awarded in Germany and in the United Kingdom. Both commemorate the composer [[Felix Mendelssohn]], and are awarded to promising young musicians to enable them to continue their development.

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The '''Mendelssohn Scholarship''' ({{lang-de|link=no|Mendelssohn-Stipendium}}) refers to two scholarships awarded in Germany and in the United Kingdom. Both commemorate the composer [[Felix Mendelssohn]], and are awarded to promising young musicians to enable them to continue their development.

==History==

Shortly after [[Felix Mendelssohn|Mendelssohn]]'s death in 1847, a group of his friends and admirers formed a committee in [[London]] to establish a scholarship to enable musicians to study at the [[University of Music and Theatre Leipzig|Leipzig Conservatoire]], which Mendelssohn had founded in 1843. Their fundraising included a performance of Mendelssohn's ''[[Elijah (oratorio)|Elijah]]'' in 1848, featuring [[Jenny Lind]]. The link between London and [[Leipzig]] fell through, resulting in two Mendelssohn Scholarships.<ref name="Grove">''[[s:Page:A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 2.djvu/322|A Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'' [[George Grove|Sir George Grove]], Vol. 2, London, 1900</ref><ref name="NYT1895">{{cite web|url= https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1895/11/07/106072657.pdf |title=''German Mendelssohn Scholarship'' }}, New York Times, 7 November 1895</ref>

==Mendelssohn Scholarship in Germany==

In Germany, the Mendelssohn Scholarship was established in the 1870s as two awards of 1500 Marks, one for composition and one for performance, for any student of a music school in Germany, and was funded by the [[Prussia]]n state as part of an arrangement under which the [[Mendelssohn family]] donated the composer's manuscripts to the state.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://hv.spk-berlin.de/deutsch/presse/archiv/2006/060115_FMB.pdf |title= Press release on the 2006 prize from the Stiftung PreussischerPreußischer Kulturbesitz |url-status= dead |archiveurlarchive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110719084612/http://hv.spk-berlin.de/deutsch/presse/archiv/2006/060115_FMB.pdf |archivedatearchive-date= 19 July 2011 |df= dmy-all |language=de}}</ref> The first recipient was the composer, [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]], who used it to travel to [[Italy]] in 1879.

Funded by the Jewish Mendelssohn family, the award was discontinued by the [[Nazism|Nazis]] in 1934. It was revived by the Ministry of Culture of the former [[East Germany]] in 1963, in the form of two annual prizes for composition and for performance. It is now awarded by the [[Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation]].

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The following is an incomplete chronological list of recipients of the German Mendelssohn Scholarship.

====1879 to 1934====

* 1879 - [[Engelbert Humperdinck (composer)|Engelbert Humperdinck]], Josef Kotek, Johann Kruse,<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de/wettbewerb/archiv/preistrager/stipendien-1879-1934/|title=Stipendien (1879-19341879–1934)|work=Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb|access-date=16 June 2018-06-16|language=de-DE}}</ref>, Ernst Seyffardt<ref name=":1">Ute Hansen, Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Preis : Geschichte, Satzung, Wettbewerbsrichtlinien, Preisträger, Stipendiaten (Berlin: Stiftung PreussischerPreußischer Kulturbesitz, 2001)</ref>

* 1880 - Marie Soldat,<ref name = "Schenk">

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* 1881 - [[Bernhard Stavenhagen]], [[Andreas Moser]],<ref name=":0" />, Johann Kruse,<ref name=":0" />, Ethel Smyth,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.fmb-hochschulwettbewerb.de/wettbewerb/archiv/preistrager/stipendien-1879-1934/|title=Stipendien (1879-19341879–1934)|work=Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Hochschulwettbewerb|access-date=2018-06-16 June 2018|language=de-DE}}</ref> Philipp Wolfrum,<ref name="Schenk"/> Adam Alex,<ref name=":1" />, Sophie Braun,<ref name=":1" />, Fritz Kaufmann (composition),<ref name=":1" /> Gotthold Knauth (piano),<ref name=":1" /> Alfred Sormann (piano)<ref name=":1" />

* 1882 - Marie Soldat (violin),<ref name=":1" /> Martin Gebhardt (organ),<ref name=":1" /> Elsa Harriers (voice),<ref name=":1" /> Marie Harzer (voice),<ref name=":1" /> Karl Prill (violin),<ref name=":1" /> Arnold Mendelssohn (composition),<ref name=":1" /> Carl Schneider (composition)<ref>Ute Hansen, Felix-Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Preis : Geschichte, Satzung, Wettbewerbsrichtlinien, Preisträger, Stipendiaten (Berlin: Stiftung PreussischerPreußischer Kulturbesitz, 2001).</ref>

* 1883 - Alex Adam,<ref name=":1" /> Albert Gorter (composition),<ref name=":1" /> Marie Harzer (voice),<ref name=":1" /> Hedwig Meyer (piano),<ref name=":1" /> Martha Schwieder (piano),<ref name=":1" /> Ernst Seyffardt (composition),<ref name=":1" /> Georg Stoltzenberg (composition),<ref name=":1" /> Elise Tannenberg (piano),<ref name=":1" /> Gabriele Wietrowetz (violin),<ref name=":1" /> Margarethe Witt (violin)<ref name=":1" />

* 1884 - Carl Grothe (composition),<ref name=":1" /> Anna Haasters (piano),<ref name=":1" /> Solma Krause (piano),<ref name=":1" /> Max Puchat (composition),<ref name=":1" /> Carl Schneider (composition)<ref name=":1" />

* 1885 -[https://web.archive.org/web/20141219025312/http://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/Artikelartikel/Gabriele_Wietrowetz Gabriele Wietrowetz], Ida Beckmann (violin),<ref name=":1" /> Marie Mette (voice),<ref name=":1" /> Fanny Richter (piano),<ref name=":1" /> Georg Stoltzenberg (composition),<ref name=":1" /> Margarete Will (piano)<ref name=":1" />

* 1886 - Charles Gregorowitsch (violin; also 1887, 1888),<ref name=":1" /> Hermann Kindler (cello),<ref name=":1" /> Geraldine Morgan (violin; also 1887),<ref name=":1" /> Bernhard Pfannstiel (organ; also 1887, 1888),<ref name=":1" /> Olga von Radecke (piano)<ref name=":1" />

* 1887 - Waldemar von Baußnern,<ref name="Schenk"/>, Heinrich van Eyken, Peter Fassbänder, Felix Odenwald<ref name=":1" />

* 1888 - Fanny Richter (piano), Percy Sherwood (piano; also 1889), Eduard Behm (also 1890, 1891), Mathieu Neumann, Ewald Strasser, Lucy Campbell (cello; also 1890)<ref name=":1" />

* 1890 - [[Bram Eldering]],<ref name="Schenk"/>, Carl Markees (violin), Hermann von Roner (violin), Elisabeth Rouge (piano), August Schmidt (piano) E. van Dooren (also 1892), Martin Grabert, Friedrich Koch, Max Oppitz (clarinet), Carl Piening (cello)<ref name=":1" />

* 1891 - Rudolf Lentz (violin; also 1892, 1893), Mina Rode (violin; also 1894), Betty Schwabe (violin), Felice Kirchdorffer (piano)<ref name=":1" />

* 1892 - Helene Jordan (voice), Rosa Schindler (violin), Lina Mayer (piano)<ref name=":1" />

* 1893 - [[Carl Thiel]],<ref name="Schenk"/>, Leo Schrattenholz, Louis Saar, Nellie Kühler (piano), Amelia Heineberg (piano), Olga von Lerdahely (violin), Kati Macdonald (piano), Lizzie Reynolds (piano)<ref name=":1" />

* 1894 - Heinrich Bendler (piano), Dietrich Schäfer (piano), Toni Tholfus (piano), May C. Taylor (composition)<ref name=":1" />

* 1895 - [[Elsie Stanley Hall]],<ref name="NYT1895"/>

* 1896 - [[Paul Juon]], Walter Bachmann (piano), Juanita Brockmann (violin; also 1899, 1904)<ref name=":1" />

* 1889 - [[Percy Sherwood]]<ref>Essay in Toccata Classics CD release available online as pdf</ref>

* 1900 - [[Karl Klingler]]<ref>[http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz42916.html Karl Klingler], entry at Deutsche Biographie {{in lang|de}}</ref>

* 1901 - [[Elly Ney]]

* 1902 - [[Alfred Sittard]]<ref name = "Schenk"/>

* 1902 - [[WladyslawIgnatz Waghalter]]

* 1904 - Eugenie Stoltz<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/artikel/Eugenie_Stoltz-Premyslav.html|title=Artikel „Eugenie"Eugenie Stoltz-Premyslav“Premyslav"|last=Wenzel|first=Silke|date=25 April 2019|website=MUGI. Musikvermittlung und Genderforschung: Lexikon und multimediale Präsentationen}}</ref> (honorable mention)

* 1904 - [[Mae Doelling]] (1888-19651888–1965), piano

* 1905 - Eugenie Stoltz<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://mugi.hfmt-hamburg.de/artikel/Eugenie_Stoltz-Premyslav.html|title=Eugenie Stoltz-Premyslav|last=Wenzel|first=Silke|date=25 April 2019|website=MUGI. Musikvermittlung und Genderforschung: Lexikon und multimediale Präsentationen}}</ref>

* 1906 - Sara Gurowitsch<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/11/06/105098814.pdf ''The Mendelssohn Prize''], letter published in New York Times, 6&nbsp; November 1910</ref>

* 1909 - [[Samuel Lieberson|Dr. Samuel A. Lieberson]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last=|first=|date=9 December 9, 1938|title=Poe Club to Hear Downtown Music School Instructor|url=|journal=The De Paulia|publisher=De Paul University, Chicago, Illinois|volume=17|pages=1|via=}}</ref>

* 1910 & 1913 - [[Ernst Toch]]

* 1912 - [[Licco Amar]]<ref name = "Schenk"/>

* 1913 - [[Hans Bassermann]],<ref name="Schenk"/> [[Mischa Levitzki]], [[Max Trapp]]

* 1913 & 1918 - [[Erwin Schulhoff]]<ref name=ledbetter>{{cite web|last=Ledbetter|first=Steven|title=Ervín Schulhoff: Concerto for String Quartet with Wind Orchestra |url=http://bso.http.internapcdn.net/bso/images/program_notes/schulhoff_concertoforstringquartetandwindorchestra.pdf |publisher=Boston Symphony Orchestra|accessdateaccess-date=5 October 2012}}</ref>

* 1915 -

* 1917 - [[Wilhelm Kempff]], Emil Peeters

* 1918 - [[Pancho Vladigerov]]

* 1919 - [[Kurt Weill]]

* 1920 - [[Pancho Vladigerov]]

* 1925 - [[Berthold Goldschmidt]], [[Max Rostal]]

* 1926 - [[Ignace Strasfogel]],<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/10/obituaries/ignace-strasfogel-84-pianist-and-conductor.html ''Ignace Strasfogel, 84, Pianist and Conductor''], obituary in New York Times, 10 February 1994</ref> [[Ernst Pepping]]

* 1928 - [[Hans Humpert<!-- no ref except German Wikipedia -->]]

* 1928 - Grete von Zieritz<ref>[http://www.fembio.org/biographie.php/frau/biographie/grete-von-zieritz/ Grete von Zieritz] at www.fembio.org</ref>

* 1928 - [[Wilhelm Stross<!-- no ref except German Wikipedia -->]]

* 1929 - Herbert Marx<ref name = "Schenk"/>

* 1930 - [[Ludwig Hölscher]]<ref name="Schenk"/>

* 1931 - [[Kurt Fiebig]],<ref name="Schenk"/> [[Roman Totenberg]], [[Artur Balsam]]

* 1932 - [[Norbert von Hannenheim]], [[Harald Genzmer]]

* 1933 - [[Werner Trenkner<!-- no ref except German Wikipedia -->]], [[Bernhard Heiden]], [[Karlrobert Kreiten]]

* 1935 - [[Fritz Werner]], [[Johannes Schneider-Marfels<!-- no ref except German Wikipedia -->]]

====Since 1963====

* 19691965 - [[Peter Herrmann]]

* 1966 - [[Walter Steffens (composer)|Walter Steffens]]

* 1974/75 - Gabriele Kupfernagel

* 1976/77 - [[Reinhard Wolschina]]

* 1978/80 - [[Walter Thomas Heyn]]

* 1981 - [[Bernd Franke (composer)|Bernd Franke]]

* 1985 - Rolf Fischer

* 1987 - Olaf Henzold

* 1988 - [[Steffen Schleiermacher]]

* 1988/89 - [[Caspar René Hirschfeld]]

* Carola Nasdala

* [[Michael Schönheit]]

* [[Michael Stöckigt]]

* Matthias Henneberg

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The funds raised at the 1848 concert were invested and allowed to accumulate until 1856, when [[Arthur Sullivan]] was elected as the first scholar. Since then it has been awarded from time to time, administered by the Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation, which is linked to the [[Royal Academy of Music]]. The foundation was created by a trust deed in 1871. Its trustees include the composers [[Anthony Payne]] and [[Justin Connolly]], and the principal of the Royal Academy of Music, [[Jonathan Freeman-Attwood]]; and its charitable objects are "For the education of musical students of both sexes in pursuance of the intentions of the founders".<ref>[http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=313360&SubsidiaryNumber=0 Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707082305/http://www.charity-commission.gov.uk/Showcharity/RegisterOfCharities/CharityFramework.aspx?RegisteredCharityNumber=313360&SubsidiaryNumber=0 |date=7 July 2011 }}, at the [[Charity Commission]]'s website</ref>

===Recipients===

Recipients include the composers [[Frederick Corder]], [[George Dyson (composer)|George Dyson]],<ref>[http://www.havergalbrian.org/zmendelssohnscholarship.htm 'On the Other Hand', Musical Opinion, April 1932, p.590] excerpt from article by Havergal Brian, retrieved from www.havergalbrian.org on 5 September 2010</ref> [[Malcolm Arnold]] and [[Kenneth Leighton]].<ref>[http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/arts-culture-environment/music/resources/kenneth-leighton-trust/biography Biography of Frederick Leighton] on Edinburgh University website</ref>

The following is an incomplete chronological list of recipients of the British Mendelssohn Scholarship.<ref name="mschol">[https://mendelssohn-schol.com/scholars/ UK Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation website], accessed 26 April 2015</ref>

*1856 - [[Arthur Sullivan]]

*1865 - [[Charles Swinnerton Heap]]<ref name="Grove"/>

*1871 - [[William Shakespeare (tenor)|William Shakespeare]]

*1873 - [[Eaton Faning]]

*1875 - [[Frederick Corder]]

*1879 - [[Maude ValerieValérie White]]

*1881 - [[Eugen d'Albert]]

*1884 - Marie Wurm<ref>''[[s:Page:A Dictionary of Music and Musicians vol 4.djvu/733|A Dictionary of Music and Musicians]]'' Sir George Grove, Vol. 4, London, 1900</ref>

*1890 - S P Waddington<ref>{{cite book|last=Banfield|first=Stephen|editor1-last=Darian-Smith|editor1-first=Kate |editor2-last= Grimshaw |editor2-first= Patricia|editor3-last = Macintyre|editor3-first= Stuart|title=Britishness abroad: transnational movements and imperial culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Vbp2E1E2WB8C&dq=|year=2007|publisher=Academic Monographs |isbn=978-0-522-85392-6|page=85|chapter=Towards a History of Music in the British Empire: Three Export Studies}}</ref>

*1895 – [[Christopher Wilson (composer)|Christopher Wilson]]<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ydxX2U5zNgwC&pg=PA311 ''Musical Times'', May 1895, p. 311]</ref>

*1905 - [[George Dyson (composer)|George Dyson]]

*1899 – [[Percy Hilder Miles]]

*1935 - [[Daniel Jones (composer)|Daniel Jones]]

*1905 - [[George Dyson (composer)|George Dyson]]

*1948 - [[Malcolm Arnold]]

*1909 – Eric William Gritton

*1951 - [[Kenneth Leighton]]

*1912 – Joseph Alan Taffs

*1954 - Francis Burt<ref name="who's who 03">{{cite book |editor=Europa Publications |title=International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003 |series=International Who's Who in Classical Music |volume=19 |year=2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-85743-174-2 }}</ref>

*1916 – Philip Levi

*1956 - [[John Exton (composer)|John Exton]]

*1921 – Arthur Lawrence Sandford

*1960 - [[David Blake (composer)|David Blake]]

*1923 – [[Percy Turnbull|Percy Purvis Turnbull]]

*1962 - [[Richard Stoker]]

*19641927 - [[PatricGodfrey StandfordSampson]]

*19681929 - [[BrianDavid FerneyhoughMoule-Evans]]

*1932 – Clifton Ivor Walsworth

*1969 - Jonathan Lloyd<ref name="who's who 03"/>

*1935 - [[Daniel Jones (composer)|Daniel Jones]]

*1972 - [[Nicola LeFanu]]

*19741948 - [[RichardMalcolm BlackfordArnold]]

*1951 - [[Kenneth Leighton]]

*1979 - [[Lionel Sainsbury]]<ref>[https://books.google.fr/books?id=hwBMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Lionel+Sainsbury%22&dq=%22Lionel+Sainsbury%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAueml0IHMAhXH7hoKHbDwBxQQ6AEIODAG ggbooks, Evan Senior, ''Music and Musicians'', Volume 28]</ref>

*1954 - [[Francis Burt (composer)|Francis Burt]]<ref name="who's who 03">{{cite book |editor=Europa Publications |title=International Who's Who in Classical Music 2003 |series=International Who's Who in Classical Music |volume=19 |year=2003 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-85743-174-2 }}</ref>

* 1985 - [[James Harley]]<ref>[http://www.mnstate.edu/harley/harley.html James Harley biography], on website of [[Minnesota State University Moorhead]]</ref>

*1956 - [[John Exton (composer)|John Exton]]

* 1986 - [[Javier Álvarez (composer)|Javier Alvarez]]<ref>Javier Alvarez's website: http://www.temazcal.co.uk</ref>

*19881960 - [[MartinDavid ButlerBlake (composer)|MartinDavid ButlerBlake]]

*19971962 - [[Richard Causton (composer)|Richard CaustonStoker]]

*20001964 - [[LukePatric BedfordStandford]]

*20021968 - [[CherylBrian Frances-HoadFerneyhough]]

*1969 - Jonathan Lloyd<ref name="who's who 03"/>

*2004 - Oliver Searle<ref name="mschol">[http://news.mendelssohn-schol.com/newsarchive.aspx UK Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation website], accessed 26 April 2015</ref>

*1972 - [[Nicola LeFanu]]

*2006 - Nadja Plein<ref name=mschol/>

*19621974 - [[Richard StokerBlackford]]

*2008 - Steven Daverson<ref name=mschol/>

*1979 - [[Lionel Sainsbury]]<ref>[https://books.google.frcom/books?id=hwBMAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Lionel+Sainsbury%22&dq=%22Lionel+Sainsbury%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjAueml0IHMAhXH7hoKHbDwBxQQ6AEIODAG ggbooks, Evan Senior, ''Music and Musicians'', Volume 28]</ref>

*2010 - Samuel Bordoli<ref name=mschol/>

* 1985 - [[James Harley]]<ref>[http://www.mnstate.edu/harley/harley.html James Harley biography] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091217112603/http://www.mnstate.edu/harley/harley.html |date=17 December 2009 }}, on website of [[Minnesota State University Moorhead]]</ref>

*2012 - Christian Mason<ref name=mschol/>

* 1986 - [[Javier Álvarez (composer)|Javier Alvarez]]<ref>Javier Alvarez's website: http://www.temazcal.co.uk</ref>

*2014 - Arne Gieshoff<ref name=mschol/>

*19601988 - [[DavidMartin BlakeButler (composer)|DavidMartin BlakeButler]]

*2016 - Nicholas Moroz<ref name=mschol/>

*1997 – [[Richard Causton (composer)|Richard Causton]]

*2018 - Nicholas Morrish, Angela Slater<ref name=mschol/>

*2000 – [[Luke Bedford]]

*2002 – [[Cheryl Frances-Hoad]]

*2004 – Oliver Searle

*2006 - Nadja Plein<ref name=mschol/>

*2008 - Steven Daverson<ref name=mschol/>

*2010 - Samuel Bordoli<ref name=mschol/>

*2012 - Christian Mason<ref name=mschol/>

*2014 - Arne Gieshoff<ref name=mschol/>

*2016 - Nicholas Moroz<ref name=mschol/>

*2018 – Nicholas Morrish<ref>Nicholas Morrish website: https://nicholasmorrish.com</ref>

*2020 – Angela Slater

*2021 – Hugo Bell<ref>{{Cite web |title=Hugo Bell – COMPOSER / PERFORMER / ARTIST |url=https://hugobellcomposer.com/ |access-date=2022-08-27 |language=en-GB}}</ref>

*2022 – Amelia Clarkson

*2023 – Jasper Dommett

==References==

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==External links==

{{Official website|mendelssohn-scholhttps://www.comhelpmusicians.org.uk/get-support/develop-as-a-musician/support-your-studies/the-mendelssohn-scholarship}} of the UK Mendelssohn Scholarship Foundation

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