Volume 51, Number 17 · November 4, 2004

Which Is the Real Mendelssohn?

By Lewis Lockwood
Mendelssohn: A Life in Music
by R. Larry Todd

Oxford University Press, 683 pp., $45.00

A Portrait of Mendelssohn
by Clive Brown

Yale University Press, 551 pp., $45.00

In his preface to the English translation of Jirí Weil's novel about Czechoslovakia under the Nazis, Philip Roth sums up the book's first chapter:



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