Fanny Mendelssohn was one of the greatest musicians of the 19th century. But because she was a woman, she had to fight for her music to be heard. She was born into a musical family – her mother taught ...

Given history's vagaries, even a long-dead composer's "complete" works are not necessarily complete, not with possible discoveries still lurking in libraries and archives. R. Larry Todd knows this, ...

Brown's biography is a fairly bland account of Mendelssohn's life and of his works, in which he usefully includes a number of biographical documents. On religious issues he offers a summary of the ...

An Interview between Jessica Duchen and R. Larry Todd. R. Larry Todd is the author of the definitive biography Mendelssohn: A Life in Music. He is Arts and Sciences Professor of Music at Duke ...