Notes on Mendelssohn: 20 Crucial Works (Notes on...)

Wilson’s vast musical expertise and succinct, polished prose style permeate these pages. Meant for any general reader interested in music, these guidebooks are ideal for dipping into as well as reading straight through.

Having been called the greatest child prodigy in the history of Western music, Felix Mendelssohn nonetheless is often dismissed today as a classic case of creative burnout. Here Wilson claims that Mendelssohn’s genius not only stayed intact but gained new intensity in the years before his untimely death.