Since about 1970 there has been a veritable renaissance in scholarship and performances concerning the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel. Th

An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor. Now, in the first major Mendelssohn bio

An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and a

The first annotated English translation of the Hebrew writings of the great eighteenth-century Berlin philosopher

Presents a portrait of the remarkable German Jewish family the Mendelssohns, from the influential philosopher and critic Moses Mendelssohn, the founding thinker