Mendelssohn Av R. Larry (professor Of Musicology Professor Of Musicology Duke University) Todd

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. 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. Larry Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant, based upon painstaking research in autograph manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and paintings. 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(termed by one critic "moonlight with sugar water"), Todd reexamines the composer''s entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works. Here areengaging analyses of Mendelssohn''s distinctive masterpieces¿the zestful Octet, puckish Midsummer Night''s Dream, haunting Hebr

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Mendelssohn Av R. Larry (professor Of Musicology Professor Of Musicology Duke University) Todd

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