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Article: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Guide to Research: With an Introduction to Research Concerning Fanny Hensel. & The Mendelssohn Companion. (Musical Men).(The Mendelssohn Companion by Douglass Seaton)
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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Guide to Research: With an Introduction to Research Concerning Fanny Hensel. By John Michael Cooper. (Composer Resource Manuals, 54.) New York: Routledge, 2001. [ix, 308 p. ISBN 0-8153-1513-9. $85.]
The Mendelssohn Companion. Edited by Douglass Seaton. New York: Greenwood Press, 2001. [xii, 799 p. ISBN 0-313-28455-8. $120.]
John Michael Cooper's volume in the Composer Resource Manuals series is an essential and much-needed tool for all Mendelssohn scholars. In his introduction, the author points out the uneven nature of Mendelssohn scholarship and its immense growth after World War II, demonstrating the necessity for an ...