The Mendelssohns on Honeymoon: The 1837 Diary of Felix and Cécile Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Together with Letters to their Families
Author:   Felix and Cécile Mendelssohn ,  Peter Ward Jones (Music Librarian, Music Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford) ,  Peter Ward Jones
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780198165972


Pages:   260
Publication Date:   28 August 1997
Format:   Hardback
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This is the joint illustrated diary kept by the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and his wife Cecile, during their honeymoon and the early months of their marriage in 1837. It covers both travels in the Rhineland and Black Forest, and Mendelssohn's visit to England later that year, and includes unpublished correspondence, drawings, and watercolours by Mendelssohn. This book is intended for students and scholars of Mendelssohn; general readers interested in musical life and travel in Germany and England in the first half of the 19th century.

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Author:   Felix and Cécile Mendelssohn ,  Peter Ward Jones (Music Librarian, Music Librarian, Bodleian Library, Oxford) ,  Peter Ward Jones
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 22.70cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.80cm
Weight:   0.906kg
ISBN:  

9780198165972


ISBN 10:   0198165978
Pages:   260
Publication Date:   28 August 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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the Mendelssohns' diary is now available in a beautifully prepared edition by Peter Ward Jones ... The Mendelssohns could hardly have found a more sympathetic or a more meticulous editor for their diary than Peter Ward Jones. * John Daverio, Music and Letters *


`the Mendelssohns' diary is now available in a beautifully prepared edition by Peter Ward Jones ... The Mendelssohns could hardly have found a more sympathetic or a more meticulous editor for their diary than Peter Ward Jones.' John Daverio, Music and Letters


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