Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 10 : Mendelssohn and the Invention of Religious Kitsch
“Mendelssohn is the inventor of religious kitsch in music. His first essay in this genre is a masterpiece, the Fugue in E Minor, published in 1837 but written ten years earlier, when the composer was eighteen …”
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 10 : Mendelssohn and the Invention of Religious Kitsch
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