 In 1843 Mendelssohn founded a major music school – the Leipzig Conservatory , now the Hochschule für Musik und Theater " Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy " or ( in its own English self @-@ designation ) the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre – where he persuaded Ignaz Moscheles and Robert Schumann to join him . Other prominent musicians , including string players Ferdinand David and Joseph Joachim and music theorist Moritz Hauptmann , also became staff members . After Mendelssohn 's death in 1847 , his <unk> tradition was carried on when Moscheles succeeded him as head of the Conservatory . 
