Mendelssohn Remembered

Nichols, Roger

ISBN 10: 0571178618 / ISBN 13: 9780571178612

Published by Faber and Faber, Limited, London, 1997

About this Item

xxi, 258 pp. The lightest of rubbing to the cover edges; short handwritten note on the Table of Contents page. The binding is tight and square, and the text is clean.

Seller Inventory # 022009

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mendelssohn Remembered
• Publisher: Faber and Faber, Limited, London
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571178618
• ISBN 13: 9780571178612
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Edition: First Paperback
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

If Mendelssohn had known he would die before he was forty, he could scarcely have filled his life with more activity and achievement. His startling precocity is equalled perhaps only by Mozart, though Mozart was never a skilled painter and caricaturist, a subtle student of philosophy and literature, or an admired musicologist and promoter of other people's music.

Roger Nichols has skilfully drawn together memoirs and reminiscences from many sources to give a flavour of the esteem in which Mendelssohn was held. Published here for the first time, for instance, are extracts from Queen Victoria's own journal, in which she records her meetings with the composer. Mendelssohn's own views are recorded by friends and colleagues. His views on teaching, composition and philosophy have a strikingly modern tone, and the charm and spirited energy that impressed all who knew him are very evident here.

About the Author

Roger Nichols is a writer and broadcaster, specializing in French music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of Conversations with Madeleine Milhaud (Faber, 1996) and Ravel Remembered (Faber, 2000).