Mendelssohn Remembered
By Roger Nichols.
Description
Although he died before his fortieth birthday, Felix Mendelssohn's accomplishments were many, beginning with his composition of a Piano Sonata in G minor at the age of eleven, and of his first Symphony at the age of fifteen. Best known as the composer of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and the Scotch (Third) Symphony, he was also a conductor, musicologist, teacher, painter, caricaturist, philospoher, founder of a Conservatory in Leipzig, husband, and the father of five children. To examine the many facets of Mendelssohn's character and to display the strikingly modern tone of his...
ISBN(s)
0571178618, 9780571178612
