So Mendelssohn composed Des Knaben Wunderhorn?
mainNaxos is about to release a recording of the poems that Gustav Mahler made famous.
Only this cycle is by Mendelssohn – Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy, the composer’s grandson. Albrecht was a political scientist wh was forced into exile by the Nazis. He died in Oxford in 1936.
You can listen to an excerpt here.
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