Mendelssohn - A Life in Music Todd R. LarryPaperback
Mendelssohn - A Life in Music Todd R. LarryPaperback An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and…
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Mendelssohn - A Life in Music Todd R. LarryPaperback
An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Larry Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant, based upon painstaking research in autograph manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and paintings. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today for several staples of the concert hall and for such popular music as The Wedding March and Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, R.
Here are engaging analyses of Rejecting the view of the composer as a craftsman of felicitous but sentimental, saccharine works (termed by one critic moonlight with sugar water), Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works.
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