Felix Mendelssohn (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Herbert Kupferberg
- First Published: 1972
- Time of Work: 1729–1972
- Setting: Germany, England, Italy, and France
- Principal Characters: Felix Mendelssohn, Moses Mendelssohn, Abraham Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Cécile Jeanrenaud Mendelssohn
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Family or family life, Nineteenth century, Europe or Europeans, Music or musicians, Composers, Biography, Conducting or conductors
- Locales: France, England, Germany, Italy
Form and Content
In Felix Mendelssohn: His Life, His Family, His Music, Herbert Kupferberg has created a multigenerational biography that also embraces the cultural and intellectual history of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In his first chapter, he portrays Felix’s eminent grandfather, the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, and in the second Felix’s father, Abraham Mendelssohn—who in later life would wryly exclaim that he once was known as the son of his father, but now as the father of his son—and the composer Felix Mendelssohn, born on February 3, 1809,...
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