Title: St. Paul (oratorio)
Content:  St. Paul (in German Paulus), Op. 36, is an oratorio by Felix Mendelssohn. The composer oversaw versions and performances in both German and English within months of completing the music in early 1836.
Title: St. Paul (oratorio)
Content:  The libretto "after words of holy scripture" was begun in 1832. The composer with pastor Julius Schubring, a childhood friend, pulled together passages from the New Testament, chiefly the Acts of the Apostles, and the Old, as well as the texts of chorales and hymns, in a polyglot manner after Bach's model. Composition of the music started in 1834 and was complete in early 1836.
Title: Stephen Paulus
Content:  Paulus was born in Summit, New Jersey, but his family moved to Minnesota when he was two. After graduating from Alexander Ramsey High School in Roseville, MN, he attended the University of Minnesota, where he studied with Paul Fetler and eventually earned a Ph.D. in composition in 1978. By 1983, he was named the Composer-in-Residence at the Minnesota Orchestra, and in 1988 he was also named to the same post at the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, whose then-conductor Robert Shaw commissioned numerous choral works from Paulus for Shaw's eponymous vocal ensemble. After the premiere of his second opera, The Postman Always Rings Twice, he began a fruitful collaboration with the Opera Theatre of St. Louis that would result in four more operas. In 1997, he was awarded the Brock Commission from the American Choral Directors Association. In a career which encompassed more than forty years of composition his output came to include over 450 works for chorus, orchestra, chamber ensemble, opera, solo voice, piano, guitar, organ, and band. Paulus lived in the Twin Cities area. On July 4, 2013, Paulus suffered a stroke. He died from medical complications on October 19, 2014, aged 65.
Title: Stephen Paulus
Content:  Stephen Paulus (August 24, 1949 – October 19, 2014) was a Grammy winning American composer, best known for his operas and choral music. His best-known piece is his 1982 opera The Postman Always Rings Twice, one of several operas he composed for the Opera Theatre of St. Louis, which prompted The New York Times to call him "a young man on the road to big things". His style is essentially tonal, and melodic and romantic by nature. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and Guggenheim Foundation and won the prestigious Kennedy Center Friedheim Prize. He was commissioned 
Title: St. Paul (oratorio)
Content:  The work was premiered on 22 May 1836 (having been completed in April of that year ) at the Lower Rhenish Music Festival in Düsseldorf. The English premiere was in Liverpool on 3 October 1836 in a translation by Mendelssohn's friend, Karl Klingermann. Contralto Mary Shaw was one of the soloists at the English premiere. The first performance in the United States was in Boston on March 14, 1837. Mendelssohn himself conducted the first performance in Leipzig in the Paulinerkirche on 16 March 1837. Numerous performances followed in Europe and in the United States. During Mendelssohn's lifetime, St. Paul was a popular and frequently performed work. Today it is regularly performed in Germany and well disseminated in both of its original languages through an array of complete recordings.
Title: Paul I, Prince Esterházy
Content:  Paul was an accomplished musical amateur, composer, and patron of the arts. He composed numerous cantatas, the most notable of which are Harmonia Caelestis. Harmonia Caelestis is a cycle of 55 sacred cantatas composed in the Baroque style published in Vienna in 1711. Paul was one of the chief compilers of the Trophaeum Domus Inclytae Estorationae. Paul used his great wealth in the liberal patronage of art and literature. He founded the Esterházy private chapel, famous for its solo singers, chorus, and orchestra.
Title: St. Paul (oratorio)
Content: Helen Donath, Hanna Schwarz, Werner Hollweg, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Düsseldorf Musikverein Choir and the Düsseldorfer Symphoniker conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos — October 1976 — EMI Electrola ; Paulus — Rachel Yakar, Brigitte Balleys, Markus Schäfer, Thomas Hampson, Choeur Symphonique et Orchestre de la Fondation Gulbenkian conducted by Michel Corboz — July 1986 — Erato ECD 75350 ; Gundula Janowitz, Rosemarie Lang, Hans Peter Blochwitz, Theo Adam, Gewandhaus Children's Choir, Leipzig Radio Chorus and the Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur — December 1986 — Philips ; Agnes Giebel, Mariko Sasaki, Shogo Miyahara, Heinrich-Schütz-Chor Tokyo, Ensemble Claudio and the Symphonia Musica Poetica conducted by Yumiko Tanno — live in Tokyo in 1993 — ALM Records ALCD 1098-99 ; Juliane Banse, Ingeborg Danz, Michael 
Title: Conversion of Paul the Apostle
Content:  The conversion of Paul is the main term of argument of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's oratorio Paulus (St. Paul), MWV A 14 / Op. 36] (1833–36). It is also subject of the choral motet Saule, Saule, quid me persequeris by Giaches de Wert (1535–1596). It is also the focus of an eight part mixed choir a cappella piece (The Conversion of Saul) composed by Z. Randall Stroope.
Title: St. Paul (oratorio)
Content:  May 5, 2000 — Chandos ; Saint Paul] (in English) — Natalie Griffin Mitchell, Susan Fleming, Scot Cameron, David Robinson, Briarwood Chancel Choir and the Alabama Philharmonic conducted by Clay Campbell — May 16–18, 2005 — Resmiranda ; María Cristina Kiehr (soprano and alto solos), Werner Güra, Michael Volle, Kammerchor Stuttgart and the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen conducted by Frieder Bernius — September 16–19, 2005 — Carus-Verlag ; Sabine Goetz, Dorothée Zimmermann, Markus Brutscher, Klaus Mertens, Kantorei der Schlosskirche Weilburg and the Capella Weilburgensis conducted by Doris Hagel — September 18–22, 2008 — Hänssler Classic ; Alexandra Coku, Kelley O'Connor, Scott Williamson, Paul Gay, Bard Festival Chorale and the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein — August 9, 2009 — ASO 227 
Title: St. Paul (oratorio)
Content: 23. Chorus — Der Erdkreis ist nun des Herrn (The nations are now the Lord's) ; 24. Recitative (S) — Und Paulus kam (And Paul came to the congregation) ; 25. Duettino (TB) — So sind wir nun Botschafter (Now we are ambassadors) ; 26. Chorus — Wie lieblich sind die Boten (How lovely are the messengers) ; 27. Recitative & Arioso (S) — Und wie sie ausgesandt von dem heiligen Geist (I will sing of thy great mercies) 28. Recitative (T) & Chorus — Da aber die Juden das Volk sahen (But when the Jews; Thus saith the Lord) ; 29. Chorus & Chorale — Ist das nicht; O Jesu Christe, wahres Licht (Is this he?; O Thou, the true and only light) ; 30. Recitative (TB) — Paulus aber und 

Question: Who was the composer of St. Paul?
Answer: Felix Mendelssohn.
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.
Mendelssohn.
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.