With not too much going on in the news today besides Democrats not paying taxes (is that really news?) I will offer up a warm 200th to Felix Mendelssohn.
A great and historically underappreciated composer, Mendelssohn is also credited with reviving interest in the music of who I consider the greatest musician of all time, J.S. Bach, through a performance of the glorious St. Matthew's Passion.
(Note on the video - fast-forward to about 1:40 - the intro scene is annoying but this is the best recording of the 1st movement of the Italian Symphony that I could find on YouTube.)
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