Mendelssohn in Performance - Hardcover

[Reichwald] has produced an exceptionally valuable, eminently useful, and very readable book. Any performer wishing to execute an historically informed performance of Mendelssohn's music-or of any other early-nineteenth-century Austro-German composer for that matter-would be well advised to study it thoroughly.29.1 2010 * Journal of Musicological Research * Mendelssohn in Performance . . . should be on the shelf of every performer, scholar and devotee of Mendelssohn's music. July 2010, Vol. 7.1 * Nineteenth Century Music Review * This book does a superb job of explaining the 19th-century sound environment of Felix Mendelssohn and his audiences. . . . Essential.July 2009 * Choice * [T]his book has something for everyone interested in Felix Mendelssohn: history,culture, reception, orchestras and instruments, editions and texts, Mendelssohn's sense ofhistoricism, his performances of other composers, performances of his music in his time andlater, and even modern films that use his music.14.1 2009 * Performance Practice Review *