The Life of Mendelssohn (Musical Lives)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521639729
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Genres & Styles - Classical; Composers; Biography / Autobiography; Music; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix,; Germany; Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; History & Criticism - General; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, --1809-1847; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix,--1809-1847; Music / General; Music-Genres & Styles - Classical; Music-History & Criticism - General; General; 1809-1847; Biography
First sentence: Towards the end of the Gregorian Calendar's year 1811, a young Jewish couple, Lea and Abraham Mendelssohn, left the city of Hamburg with their three children and a sizeable sum of money.