Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 10 : Mendelssohn and the Invention of Religious Kitsch
“Mendelssohn was the greatest child prodigy the history of Western music has ever known. Not even Mozart or Chopin before the age of nineteen could equal the mastery that Mendelssohn already possessed when he was only sixteen. Most astonishing is the nature of Mendelssohn's precocious talent: not only a gift for lyrical melodic lines and delicate, transparent textures, but, above all, a control of large-scale structure unsurpassed by any composer of his generation.”
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 10 : Mendelssohn and the Invention of Religious Kitsch
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