what was the above mentioned book about?
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who was widely known as the most outstanding violin virtuoso of the 19th century Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy when did he conduct bach? 1829 was he teaching too? Yes, but taught only a very few private pupils. what did he teach? Music describe some modern era opinions on him? Charles Rosen, in a chapter on Mendelssohn in his 1995 book "The Romantic Generation", both praises and criticizes the composer. He calls him "the greatest child prodigy the history of Western music has ever known".
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Felix Mendelssohn [SEP] Modern opinions
Appreciation of Mendelssohn's work has developed over the last 50 years, together with the publication of a number of biographies placing his achievements in context. Mercer-Taylor comments on the irony that "this broad-based reevaluation of Mendelssohn's music is made possible, in part, by a general disintegration of the idea of a musical canon", an idea which Mendelssohn "as a conductor, pianist and scholar" had done so much to establish. The critic H. L. Mencken concluded that, if Mendelssohn indeed missed true greatness, he missed it "by a hair". Charles Rosen, in a chapter on Mendelssohn in his 1995 book "The Romantic Generation", both praises and criticizes the composer.