Article: The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn. Peter Mercer-Taylor, editor. Cambridge University Press. [pounds sterling]50.00. xv + 315 pages. ISBN 0-521-53342-2. This latest number in the Cambridge Companion to Music series contains essays by scholars in Britain, Germany and the U.S. The collection of fourteen essays revolves round the 'tensions' in Mendelssohn's life and music. The essays are divided into four parts. The first, with three papers, examines 'issues' (i.e. problems) in writing the composer's life: his relations with the institutions of German music, his Judaism ...

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