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Description for Mendelssohn
Paperback. 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. This book offers a masterful blend of biography and musical analysis. Num Pages: 736 pages, 1 map, numerous halftones and musical examples. BIC Classification: AVGC5; AVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 233 x 160 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1056.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
712
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Number of Pages
736
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195179880
SKU
V9780195179880
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About R. Larry Todd
R. Larry Todd was hailed in The New York Times as "the dean of Mendelssohn scholars in the United States." A Professor of Musicology at Duke University, he has published widely on Mendelssohn and his time, and nineteenth-century music.
Reviews for Mendelssohn
A highly readable and authoritative account of a brief but remarkably creative life, and an important contribution to Mendelssohn studies. S Professor Todd is our most distinguished authority on Mendelssohn ... His new volume gives not only a remarkably full and detailed picture of Mendelssohn's career, but also a rich and satisfying account of the European culture in which he ... Read more