 Mendelssohn wrote symphonies , concerti , 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 now been recognised and re @-@ evaluated . He is now among the most popular composers of the Romantic era . 
