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Oct 26, 2009 | Oregonlive.com

Classical review: Portland Baroque Orchestra puts Mendelssohn in illuminating context

As pianist and scholar Charles Rosen put it simply, Felix Mendelssohn "was the greatest prodigy the history of music has ever known." He was fully formed as a composer by age 16, when he wrote his Op.

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Sat Sep 26, 2009

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Play Listen Repeat Vol. 42

In his book a oeThe Classical Style,a Charles Rosen makes a cool point. He sets it up by saying: a oeThe history of an artistic a languagea a cannot be understood in the same way as the history of a language used for everyday conversation.

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