MENDELSSOHN
July/August 2012
Bach came as close to sainthood as Luther could allow. We should all be grateful to a composer never surpassed.
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July/August 2012
The Mendelssohn scholar R. Larry Todd, not content just with having written the best biography there's ever been of Felix himself, has brought out the definitive biography of Fanny Hensel, Mendelssohn's sister.
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July/August 2012
...but my final blogpost about him for BBC Radio 3 has only just gone up. Here it is: Farewell to Felixcitations!
Mendelssohn, of course, has dropp
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