Description: JAKOB LUDWIG FELIX MENDELSSOHN-Bartholdy was a wonder child of music. His life was short, but into it was crowded almost incredible accomplishment and the rarest of good fortune. The happiness which he enjoyed is held against him by some biographers, who suggest that he might have been a greater man, and his music might now seem to us more protound, if he had had his share of hard knocks. That point of view will not be tound in this book. The best of his fortune was his character, a direct gift from remarkable parents and grandparents. That he was rich and that he enjoyed extraordinary opportunities to improve himself, followed naturally from great intelligence and prodigious industry in his elders. His genius was the gift of heaven, but the history of art is full of geniuses who miss the success to which, as we say, they were entitled. He had genius, but he worked. If Felix Mendelssohn seemed properly named a happy child, we should remember that he and his sister Fanny were always glad when Sunday came, since on that day they didn't have to get up at five o'clock to study their lessons. His grandfather, Moses Mendelssohn, was a famous…
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Publication Year: 1944
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Book Title: Song Without Words
Book Series: Felix
Author: John Erskine
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Julian Messner, Inc.
Topic: Biography
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Edition: 2nd printing
