- Banned in China: Even though he himself was not observant, but rather a devout Lutheran, just the fact that Mendelssohn was of Jewish ancestry was enough to have his music banned by Nazi Germany.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Was greatly more appreciated in England than his home country.
- Vindicated by History: Not himself (necessarily), but rather, Mendelssohn caused this for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, who in his lifetime was primarily famous as an organist rather than a composer. Mendelssohn discovered many of Bach's manuscripts in the early 1800s and conducted the St. Matthew Passion for the first time since Bach's death 80 years ago. The Bach Revival and modern day reverence of Bach as a composer is heavily attributed to Mendelssohn.
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