MENDELSSOHN'S "ST. PAUL."
Sir,-"Marsyas" this week has some spicy things to say about Mendelssohn’s "St. Paul," and I agree with him. Apart from a few snippets like the "Wedding March" and "Hear My Prayer’ Mendelssohn is at best a copyist, derivative rather than originative, as was Schubert, apart from his songs. We
should conduct an intelligent purge of uninspired work so that the general public’s conception of "classical music" as a weary and apparently aimless succession of dull sound may be corrected.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 155, 12 June 1942, Page 4
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82MENDELSSOHN'S "ST. PAUL." New Zealand Listener, Volume 6, Issue 155, 12 June 1942, Page 4
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