The Life of Mendelssohn (Musical Lives)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 6, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521630252
Subjects: Biography: film, television & music; Composers & musicians; Music; Composers & Musicians - Classical Composers; Music Of The 19th Century; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix,; History & Criticism; Composers & Musicians - General; Classical; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix,--1809-1847; Music / General; 1809-1847; Biography; Composers; Germany
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.