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A Portrait of Mendelssohn
Clive Brown
Scholarly biography / reception study · 2003 · English
Clive Brown. A Portrait of Mendelssohn. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2003. ISBN 9780300095395.
Brown’s biography reassesses Mendelssohn against a long history of condescension that portrayed him as merely polished, privileged or conservative. Drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs, reviews and contemporary reports, the book reconstructs the composer as pianist, conductor, organizer, teacher, family member and public intellectual as well as composer. It…
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