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Article: Mendelssohn's long lost `Uncle'.(Entertainment)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- June 19, 2005
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Byline: The Register-Guard
When Felix Mendelssohn wrote "The Uncle From Boston," he was just 14.
The three-act comic opera was performed at his parents' home in 1824, shortly after his 15th birthday, and then was set aside.
Fortunately, it did not end up in an attic or a fireplace but in the Prussian State Library in Berlin - waiting, it might seem, for Helmuth Rilling to come along nearly two centuries later and do for Mendelssohn what Mendelssohn had done for Johann Sebastian Bach: give him a second look.
Rilling and his International Bach Academy had long been interested in Mendelssohn's role as a rediscoverer and champion of Bach's ...