Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks

About this film

LibriVox recording of Mendelssohn And Certain Masterworks by Herbert Francis Peyser. Read in English by David Wales. In the compass of the present pamphlet it is impossible to give more than a cursory survey of Mendelssohn’s happy but extraordinarily crowded life. He was only slightly less prolific a composer than such masters as Bach, Mozart or Schubert, even if he did not reach the altitude of their supreme heights. But irrespective of the quality of much of his output, the sheer mass of it is astounding, the more so when we consider the extent of his travels and the unceasing continuity of his professional and social activities, which immensely exceeded anything of the kind in the career of Schubert or Bach. From the Author's Foreword. For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording. For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit LibriVox.org . M4B Audiobook (39MB)

Directors & creators

Herbert Francis Peyser

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;biography; music; nineteenth century; Romanticism; composer; mendelssohn

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