Felix Mendelssohn Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions inc ...

composed the

cantata A cantata (; ; literally "sung", past participle feminine singular of the Italian language, Italian verb ''cantare'', "to sing") is a vocal music, vocal Musical composition, composition with an musical instrument, instrumental accompaniment, ty ...

''Festgesang an die Künstler'', Op. 68, in 1846 as an entry to a German-Flemish song competition,Rudolf Potyra
"Beispielhafte Klangschönheit und Präzision"
(''Examples of tonal beauty and precision''), in ''Frankischer Tag'', 22 March 1999. Retrieved 2010-02-28. and it was published later that same year. Some sources confuse this Festgesang with one written in 1840 for the Gutenberg Festival at

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, the '' Festgesang (Gutenberg cantata)''. The piece is a setting of verses by

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, philosopher and historian. Schiller is considered by most Germans to be Germany's most important classical playwright. He was born i ...

for a men's choir and 13 brass instruments.Cooper, John Michael, "Mendelssohn's works: prolegomenon to a comprehensive inventory" in Seaton, Douglas, ''The Mendelssohn companion'' (Westport, Conn. and London: Greenwood Press, 2001, p. 721).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Festgesang An Sie Kunstler Musical settings of poems by Friedrich Schiller Cantatas by Felix Mendelssohn 1846 cantatas