Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide (2nd edition)

The Routledge Music Bibliographies series covers both genres and composers. From the latter this volume is an enlargement of a 2001 work dedicated to writing about Mendelssohn, described in the introduction as: “one of the most ambivalently represented composers in the world of musical scholarship” (p. xi). This is because his music remains known to the majority in just a few works, which have been dismissed by a number of scholars as lightweight. Equally, his reputation suffered in the nineteenth century and in the Third Reich from reaction to his being a Jew. He further suffered posthumously because his youthful...