Well, what do you know? Here’s a SECOND Peanuts strip devoted to Mendelssohn, for the composer’s birthday! I hadn’t realized Schulz had even touched on Mendelssohn. I recall one moment of weakness when Schroeder was about to play Brahms, but otherwise, to my knowledge, it’s been pretty much straight Beethoven.

Other composers have been referenced in the strip – Handel and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich spring to mind – but can anyone remember if anyone else ever made it into Schroeder’s piano bench (figuratively speaking, since he sits on the floor)?