Editing Felix Mendelssohn (section)

====Death====
[[File:Felixmendelssohngrave.jpg|thumb|right|upright=0.6|alt=|Mendelssohn's gravestone at the [[Holy Trinity Church (Berlin)#Cemeteries|Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof]]]]

Mendelssohn suffered from poor health in the final years of his life, probably aggravated by nervous problems and overwork. A final tour of England left him exhausted and ill, and the death of his sister, Fanny, on 14 May 1847, caused him further distress. Less than six months later, on 4 November, aged 38, Mendelssohn died in Leipzig after a series of strokes.{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|2000|pp=198–203}} His grandfather Moses, Fanny, and both his parents had all died from similar [[Apoplexy|apoplexies]].{{sfn|Sterndale Bennett|1955|p=376}}{{refn|One assessment of the type of stroke from which the Mendelssohn family suffered is [[subarachnoidal hemorrhage|subarachnoidal haemorrhage]].<ref>S. Schmidler et al., [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16586256 "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809–1847): the mystery of his early death"] (in German), in ''Fortschritte der neurologie-Psychologie'', 74 (9), September 2006, pp. 522–527, summarized in English on [[National Center for Biotechnology Information|NCBI]] website, accessed 1 March 2018.</ref>|group=n}} Although he had been generally meticulous in the management of his affairs, he died [[intestate]].{{sfn|Werner|1963|p=497}}

Mendelssohn's funeral was held at the [[Paulinerkirche, Leipzig|Paulinerkirche]], Leipzig, and he was buried at the [[Holy Trinity Church (Berlin)#Cemeteries|Dreifaltigkeitsfriedhof I]] in Berlin-[[Kreuzberg]]. The [[pallbearer]]s included Moscheles, Schumann and [[Niels Gade]].{{sfn|Todd|2003|p=567}} Mendelssohn had once described death, in a letter to a stranger, as a place "where it is to be hoped there is still music, but no more sorrow or partings."{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|2000|p=206}}