Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period.
== Tossup Questions ==
# The exposition of the first movement of this composer's first String Quintet in A Major ends with a surprise scherzando section in F-sharp minor. This composer's String Quartet No. 2 in A Minor is bookended by A-major sections derived from his song "Ist es wahr?" One of his pieces begins with two flutes playing E and G sharp, then the winds playing the chords "B major. A minor. E major." This composer invented a "light and airy" style that he used in scherzos, like one in G minor inspired by the Walpurgisnacht scene in Goethe's Faust. The last movement of that piece by this composer quotes the "And He shall reign for ever and ever" theme from the "Hallelujah Chorus." One of his pieces uses a descending major ninth to depict the braying of the donkey head of Bottom. For 10 points, name this precocious German Romantic composer of an Octet in E-Flat Major and an overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream.  
# One of this composer's violin concertos unusually includes a written-out cadenza between the development and the recapitulation of its first movement, which is marked "Allegro molto appassionato". The solo violin enters in the second measure of that violin concerto by him, in which a bassoon holding a B seamlessly connects the first and second movements. The finale of this composer's fifth symphony begins with a solo flute playing "A Mighty Fortress is Our God"; that symphony by him was written for the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession. His third symphony was inspired by the same trip to Scotland that inspired an overture depicting Fingal's Cave. For 10 points, name this German Romantic composer of the "Reformation" Symphony and The Hebrides Overture.
# For the public premiere of his first symphony, this composer replaced the minuet with the scherzo from his String Octet in E-flat Major. Multiple Venetian boat songs appear in a collection of piano works by this composer, which are arranged in eight books of six pieces. A fanfare in which three successive trumpet entrances build up a C-major triad begins this composer's "Wedding March," which he wrote as incidental music to a certain Shakespeare play. For 10 points, name this composer of Songs Without Words and A Midsummer Night's Dream.