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A Portrait of Mendelssohn.(Book Review)
By Clive Brown. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). [xxxiii, 551 p. ISBN 0-300-09539-2. $45.] Illustrations, bibliography, index.
Mendelssohn scholars are usually loathe to recommend a biography of the composer. Eric Werner's Mendelssohn: A New Image of the Composer and His Age (trans. Dika Newlin [London: Free Press of Glencoe, 1963]; rev. as Mendelssohn: Leben und Werk in neuer Sicht [Zurich: Atlantis, 1980]), long regarded as the most important such work to appear in the post-World War II period, is now regarded as crippled by serious flaws. It is embarrassing, after a century, to have to recommend George Grove's article (A Dictionary of Music and ...
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