IN A SENSE, the most complex and fascinating part of Felix Mendelssohn's life began when he died in 1847, at the age of thirty-eight. His reputation was at a peak - he had recently conducted the ...

Any memoir of the first twenty years of one’s life runs the risk of glibly sentimentalising the past and assuming that trivial remembered details or moments merit wider circulation. Stephen Hough ...

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