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The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition. By Jeffrey S. Sposato. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. [xi, 228 p. ISBN-10: 0-19514-974-2; ISBN-13: 978-0-19514-974-6. $39.95.] Bibliographic references, index, illustrations.
The latter-day flourishing of scholarly and general interest in the music and life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy gained its initial impulse after World War II, as the musical world began to recognize the injustices propagated on grounds of politics but in the name of art during the century's volatile early decades. Building on new momentum that emerged at the 1959 sesquicentennial of the ...