 In 1829 Mendelssohn paid his first visit to Britain , where his former teacher Ignaz Moscheles , already settled in London , introduced him to influential musical circles . In the summer he visited Edinburgh , where he met among others the composer John Thomson , whom he later recommended to be Professor of Music at Edinburgh University . On his eighth visit in the summer of 1844 , he conducted five of the Philharmonic concerts in London , and wrote : 
