1823 portrait of Lea Mendelssohn by Wilhelm Hensel
Lea Mendelssohn Bartholdy, née Lea Salomon (15 March 1777, Berlin-12 December 1842, Berlin), was a musician, musical promoter, and salonièrre. She was the wife of banker and cultural patron Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy and mother of the composer Fanny Hensel, the composer de:Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, the singer and salonnière Rebeckah Mendelssohn Dirichlet and the banker and cellist Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy. A promoter of music and culture, she was the centre of a musical salon in Berlin, which had developed since 1819 from the domestic musical life of the Mendelssohn family and gained considerable importance from 1831 onwards through the activities of her daughter Fanny.
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