 In the 20th century the Nazi regime and its Reichsmusikkammer cited Mendelssohn 's Jewish origin in banning performance and publication of his works , even asking Nazi @-@ approved composers to rewrite incidental music for A Midsummer Night 's Dream ( Carl Orff obliged ) . Under the Nazis , " Mendelssohn was presented as a dangerous ' accident ' of music history , who played a decisive role in rendering German music in the 19th century ' degenerate ' . " The German Mendelssohn Scholarship for students at the Leipzig Conservatoire was discontinued in 1934 ( and not revived until 1963 ) . The monument dedicated to Mendelssohn erected in Leipzig in 1892 was removed by the Nazis in 1936 . A replacement was erected in 2008 . His grave however remained unmolested during the National Socialist years . 
