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Felix Mendelssohn MBTI Personality Type

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What personality type is Felix Mendelssohn? Felix Mendelssohn is an INFJ personality type in MBTI, 4w3 - so/sp - 469 in Enneagram, RLOAI in Big 5, SEI in Socionics.

I've revisited Mendelssohn in the past couple of weeks, a few things I found interesting: - solid leadership material. He was really respected as a conductor - or music director; he was pretty much the one who started the job of the conductor, he was apparently not bad at organizing and planning musical events, leading orchestras etc. - very versatile artist. I mean, conductor, composer, piano virtuoso, brilliant violinist and organist, painter/sketch artist. And his paintings are really good, as far as I can judge (http://themendelssohnproject.de/about_tmp/activities/artworks_2.htm). - I would definitely consider an Enneagram 1 (or maybe 2/9 with a 1 wing) based on the way he dealt with his life. Yes, he was emotionally expressive through his art, but between the lines, he seems more like he had to be in control of his life; perfectionist about both his work and his private life. Also one of the few composers that didn't have debts and/or scandals, as far as I know. (There are rumours about an unhappy love story with singer Jenny Lind, however those are not proven and since the documents are curiously missing, never will be.) - critics back then and still nowadays judge his lack of invention, but I'm fairly certain he was the first/only romantic composer to use fugues, for example. A lot of his critics should be handled with care - Mendelssohn's Jewish ancestry made him a target for antisemitic bigotry and ideology, starting with Wagner, up to Nazi propaganda in WWII - and he's still not fully rehabilitated, sadly. The fact that his works are still among the most-played world-wide says a lot about how "uninventive" he was - can you name more than two works of his contemporaries Giacomo Meyerbeer and Louis Spohr, for example? He als certainly had a style of his own; you can easily tell his works from those of other composers. I can see INFJ, but I'm also still very much in favour of INFP - if so, a very healthy one, I shall say.

Biography

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy[n 1] (3 February 1809 – 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn,[n 2] was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period. Mendelssohn wrote symphonies, concertos, oratorios, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his Overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the overture The Hebrides, his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. His Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions. After a long period of relative denigration due to changing musical tastes and antisemitism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, his creative originality has been re-evaluated. He is now among the most popular composers of the romantic era.