FELIX MENDELSSOHN: A Life In Letters

This copy is in mint, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dustwrapper is in mint condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Felix Mendelssohn's letters, with their charm and humour, provide an unsurpassed picture of intimate family life, European travels and nineteenth-century musical affairs. The extraordinary letters contained in this volume, many of which have never been before published in English, span the composer's lifetime, beginning when he was twelve years of age. They are filled with details about his musical life, evocative descriptions of his travels in England, Scotland, Scotland, Italy, France and Germany, and his many meetings with the musical, literary and artistic luminaries of his age such as Giacomo Rossini and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Ref NNN 7.…