Eric Werner On Felix Mendelssohn

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Eric Werner On Felix Mendelssohn
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IZ0444
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Eric Werner On Felix Mendelssohn| Produced by WBAI| Dates unknown. - CONTENT: Dr. Eric Werner opens the program with a series of questions regarding what a biographer's obligations to his subject should be. He describes how 20 years ago, important documents of and relating to Mendelssohn's life which had been strictly guarded by his family. Dr. Werner reviews Mendelssohn's life as a Jew in German culture, and his failure to complete an opera. Werner plays specific works of Mendelssohn. - Broadcast date unknown.

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