• Barenboim, Lev Aronovich (1962). Anton Grigorevich Rubinstein (2 vols.) (in Russian). Leningrad: State Musical Publishing House
• Brown, Clive (2003). A Portrait of Mendelssohn. New Haven and London. ISBN 978-0-300-09539-5. 
• Chorley, Henry (1972). Thirty Years' Musical Recollections. New York.  Edited by Ernest Newman.
• Conway, David, "Short, Dark and Jewish-Looking": Felix Mendelssohn in Britain, in The Jewish Year Book 2009, ed. Stephen Massil, Luân Đôn, 2009. ISBN 978-0-85303-890-0 downloadable here
• Conway, David (2011). Jewry in Music: Entry to the Profession from the Enlightenment to Richard Wagner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-01538-8. 
• Devrient, Eduard (1869). My Recollections of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. Luân Đôn.  Translated by N.MacFarren.
• Devrient, Eduard (1964). Eduard Devrient: aus seinen Tagebüchern (bằng tiếng Đức) . Weimar.  Bảo trì CS1: Ngôn ngữ không rõ (link)
• Eatock, Colin (2009). Mendelssohn and Victorian England. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6652-3. 
• Emmett, William (1996). The national and religious song reader. New York: Haworth Press. ISBN 978-0-7890-0099-6.
• Articles in Grove Music Online (yêu cầu đăng ký):
  • Todd, R. Larry. “Mendelssohn, Felix”. Trong Deane Root. Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. Truy cập ngày 10 tháng 12 năm 2010. 
  • Temperley, Nicholas. “Overture”. Trong Deane Root. Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. Truy cập ngày 10 tháng 12 năm 2010. 
  • Daverio, John; Eric Sams. “Schumann, Robert”. Trong Deane Root. Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. Truy cập ngày 10 tháng 12 năm 2010. 
• Hansen, Jōrg and Gerald Vogt, "Blut und Geist": Bach, Mendelssohn und ihre Musik im Dritten Reich, Eisenach, 2009
• Hensel, Sebastian (1884). The Mendelssohn Family (ấn bản 4). Luân Đôn.  Bảo trì CS1: Văn bản dư (link) 2 volumes. Edited by Felix's nephew, an important collection of letters and documents about the family.
• Hiller, Ferdinand (1874). Mendelssohn: Letters and Recollections. Luân Đôn.  Translated by M.E.von Glehn.
• Locke, Ralph P. (1986). Music, Musicians and the Saint-Simonians. Chicago and London. 
• Mellers, Wilfrid (1957). Romanticism and the Twentieth Century. Luân Đôn. 
• Mendelssohn, Fanny (1994). Songs for Pianoforte 1836–37. A-R Editions, Inc. ISBN 089579293 Kiểm tra giá trị |isbn= (trợ giúp). . Edited by Camilla Cai.
• Mendelssohn, Felix (1888). Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles. London and Boston.  Edited by F. Moscheles
• Mendelssohn, Felix (1986). Felix Mendelssohn, A Life in Letters. New York. ISBN 0-88064-060-X.  Edited by R. Elvers, translated by C. Tomlinson.
• Mercer-Taylor, Peter (2000). The Life of Mendelssohn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-63972-7. 
• Mercer-Taylor, Peter (editor) (2004). The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-53342-2. 
• Moscheles, Charlotte (1873). Life of Moscheles, with selections from his Diaries and Correspondence. Luân Đôn. 
• Nietzsche, Friedrich (2002). Beyond Good and Evil. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-77078-5.  Translated by Rolf-Peter Horstmann and Judith Norman.
• Polko, Elise, Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Longmans, Green & Co., Luân Đôn 1869.
• Rosen, Charles (1995). The Romantic Generation. Harvard. ISBN 0-674-77933-9. 
• Sanders, L.G.D. Jenny Lind, Sullivan and the Mendelssohn Scholarship, in The Musical Times, vol 97, no.1363 (September 1956)
• Schoeps, Julius S. (2009). Das Erbe der Mendelssohns. Frankfurt: S.Fischer Verlag. ISBN 978-3-10-073606-2. 
• Smith, Ronald (2000). Alkan: The man, the music. Luân Đôn: Kahn & Averill. ISBN 1-871082-73-0. 
• Sterndale Bennett, R., The Death of Mendelssohn, in 'Music and Letters' vol. 36 no. 4, Oxford, 1955
• Taruskin, Richard (2010). The Oxford History of Western Music. 3:Music in the Nineteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-019-538483-3. 
• Todd, R. Larry (editor) (1991). Mendelssohn and his World. Princeton. ISBN 0-691-02715-3. 
• Todd, R. Larry (n.d.), "Mendelssohn, Felix", in Grove Music Online, accessed ngày 12 tháng 2 năm 2013.
• Todd, R. Larry (2003). Mendelssohn – A Life in Music. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-511043-9. 
• Wagner, Richard (1992). My Life. New York: Da Capo. ISBN 0-306-80481-6.  Translated by Andrew Grey.
• Wagner, Richard (1995). Judaism in Music and Other Essays. Lincoln NE and London: University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-9766-1.  Translated by W. Ashton Ellis.
• Werner, Eric (1963). Mendelssohn, A New Image of the Composer and his Age. New York; Luân Đôn. 

There are numerous published editions and selections of Mendelssohn's letters.

The main collections of Mendelssohn's original musical autographs and letters are to be found in the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, the New York Public Library, and the Staatsbibliothek in Berlin. His letters to Moscheles are in the Collection of Brotherton Library, University of Leeds.

A Thematic-systematic Catalogue of the Musical Works (MWV) has been prepared by Ralph Wehner.