Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . Den wagenden VerstandDer sie gefesselt haltIm einfach Schonen. WHEN Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote his Paulus he waseverywhere recognized as the most famous living composer; pub-lishers strove with each other to obtain his compositions; youthful artiststhronged around him; the public bought, sang, and played his worksrather than those of any one else; and, most indicative of his standing,the greatest contemporary composers recognized him without envy astheir leader. Those who yielded Mendelssohn this place — RobertSchumann, Ludwig Spohr, Franz L
Modern music and musicians : [Encyclopedic] . Den wagenden VerstandDer sie gefesselt haltIm einfach Schonen. WHEN Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy wrote his Paulus he waseverywhere recognized as the most famous living composer; pub-lishers strove with each other to obtain his compositions; youthful artiststhronged around him; the public bought, sang, and played his worksrather than those of any one else; and, most indicative of his standing,the greatest contemporary composers recognized him without envy astheir leader. Those who yielded Mendelssohn this place — RobertSchumann, Ludwig Spohr, Franz Lachner, Niels W. Gade, WilliamSterndale Bennett, Wilhelm Taubert, and Ignaz Moscheles — were nomean composers. But how changed it is to-day, though little more thana half-century has elapsed since the master closed his eyes forever!Then one of the noblest in the kingdom of music, Robert Schumann,dedicated with heartfelt reverence his three string quartets, Op. 44, tohis friend Mendelssohn; now many a youthful artist who has struggled 145. HOUSE WHERE MENDELSSOHN WAS 14 Grosse Michaelis Street, Hamburg. a little with simple counterpoint thinks he may shrug his shoulderscompassionately whenever Mendelssohn is spoken of. The musical presshas alluded to the tedious Piano Concerto in G minor, and in thevery sanctuary of Mendelssohns most famous works—in the LeipsicGewandhaus-Concerts—his name stands upon the concert programs lessoften than that of any one else; indeed, it almost seems as if his workswere performed more with regard to his position as former director ofthis concert-institute than in grateful consciousness of his incontestablestanding as composer. How has it happened that in such a comparatively short time thepopularity of Mendelssohn has waned to such a degree? Was he im-moderately overestimated by his contemporaries? I cannot take thisview. The most glowing admirer of Mendelssohn would not maintainthat he equaled Bach as a church composer, Beethoven
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