The Mendelssohn Project is the primary source for information on all matters relating to Felix Mendelssohn.

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847) was the most celebrated, influential, and respected musician of his time, as well as a brilliant composer, performer and leading figure in European cultural life. He was a giant among giants. But the brightly shining firmament which was Felix Mendelssohn was almost totally eclipsed by the creeping nightmare of anti-Semitism shortly after the composer’s death. All but a small handful of his works were suddenly relegated to obscurity.

Led by its founder and artistic director, Stephen Somary, and in collaboration with some of the world’s most respected Mendelssohn experts, The Mendelssohn Project (‘TMP’) began its world-wide research in 1997, and compiled the world's first complete list of Felix Mendelssohn's works. TMP unveiled this list to the public in 2005 to coincide with the launch of its first website.

The amount of great music by this esteemed composer which had never been heard by that point was staggering. More than 250 of his ca. 770 works were still completely unknown. Over the past decade, many of these works have been given their world premiere (some by TMP), and a true Mendelssohn revolution is now underway.

Since its inception, the central goal of The Mendelssohn Project has been to lead the charge to acquaint the world with Mendelssohn’s music, letters, beautiful artworks, and his towering legacy. Before his sudden demise at the hands of German Nationalists, Felix Mendelssohn's name was spoken in the same breath as Mozart and Beethoven. But within only a few years of his death, his name was hardly spoken at all. TMP has also seen it as its duty to bring the horrors of this extraordinary story to light.

It is TMP’s hope that future generations will have enough information to see it fit to reinstate Felix Mendelssohn to his former place in the pantheon of the greatest composers of all time.