Mendelssohn Haus

The Mendelssohn Haus was the coolest one we went to. The have collected so much of his personal belongings and they have so much information on him and his life, family, etc. I learned a lot here. Brandon already knew most of it, but was fun for him to see the things that went with all the stories.

This is the Mendelssohn haus from the left side. He lived on the 2nd floor.

This is where I stood when I took that picture :)

This is the building from the right side. This is where the entrance gate is.

The garden/courtyard

The stairs - they were super squeaky

This museum had lots of pictures, original documents, household belongings - silverware, chairs, etc. I'm just posting a few of them.

This is a picture of Mendelssohn

A bust

A cast of his hand. Brandon loves these. He enjoys comparing his own hand size/shape to these famous composers.

Pens he used

One of his son's infant outfits

The Layout of the apartment

Top L-R: Dressing room (with bedroom below it) / Kitchen / Small rooms on either side of the stairs are like closets / Drawing Room / Study

Bottom L-R: Music Salon / Dining Room / Children Room / Children Room / Cabinet

Just off the bedroom was the dressing room. This is where the washing sink, dresser, cabinets, etc would have been.

Bedroom/Alcove. This would have been furnished after the French fashion. In here Mendelssohn had 2 strokes and died at just 38.

The death mask

The weird tradition of saved hair

The kitchen

This is a model of what the Gewandhaus looked like in Mendelssohn's time.

He was the director/conductor of the Gewandhaus Orchestra while he lived in Leipzig.

Drawing Room - all original furniture and artwork

Study

Everything was recreated based on a water color painted of this room. The chair at the desk is original and the water color paintings are his original paintings. Everything else are historical pieces.

The Music Salon.

The floor are original (restored) and the furniture is all recreated after the time period.

Dining Room

This was one of the children's rooms. It was full of the original documents and manuscripts.

Another of the children rooms. This is furnished with 2 historical grand pianos. Neither of them his, or played by him. One is a Berndt - build in Breslau, an important manufacture of the time and the other is a Trondlin - the type ordered by Mendelsohn for the Gewandhaus Orchestra.

The stool belonged to a friend of Mendelssohn, who helped him with the texts for his pieces. Mendelssohn sat on this stool as they worked together. (I think that's funny - because he sat on it once or twice)

They called this room the Cabinet and was his wife's room. All the furniture is original.

This was his bookcase his books

And that concludes your tour :)