Mendelssohn: A Life in Music.(Reviews)(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Contemporary Review | July 1, 2004 | Copyright

Mendelssohn: A Life in Music. R. Larry Todd. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]25.00. xxix + 683 pages. ISBN 0-19-511043-9. This biography, published by O.U.P. New York, seeks to give readers a balanced view of a composer whose fate has varied enormously over the years. To some he was a musical genius equal to Mozart; to others, his music was marked by 'a proclivity toward the saccharine ... [and] revealed a sentimental, effeminate nature'. That great genius, George Bernard Shaw, denounced his 'kid glove gentility' and defended those who attacked him as a Jew by race ...

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