Mendelssohn
Subtitle: A Life in Music
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: February 9, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 736
ISBN-13: 9780195179880
First sentence: When bankers Joseph and Abraham Mendelssohn established Gebruder Mendelssohn &amp; Co. in 1805, Hamburg was a thriving center of commerce and shipbuilding with a population of some one hundred thousand.