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Article: The Life of Mendelssohn. (Book Reviews).
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The Life of Mendelssohn. By Peter Mercer-Taylor. (Musical Lives.) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. [viii, 238 p. ISBN 0-521-63972-7. $17.95 (pbk.).]
In The Life of Mendelssohn, Peter Mercer-Taylor provides for the general reader a well-written and thoughtful account of the composer's life, into which he seamlessly weaves a survey of his music. The book is divided into eight chapters. The first is a clear and useful survey of Felix Mendelssohn's family background that, in a short space, paints a lively picture of Mendelssohn's intellectual inheritance from his grandfather Moses and his parents' characters and outlook; the remaining chapters treat ...