Mendelssohn

This is the long-awaited, definitive biography of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847). While seen as a prodigy and genius, Mendelssohn is most famous as the composer of "The Wedding March" and other "lightweight" music. Noted musicologist R. Larry Todd rights that record, re-examines his major compositions, explores the anti-Semitic reception to his work by Wagner and others, and looks at the related compositions of Mendelssohn's sister, Fanny Hensel.