Recognized in the New York Times as "the dean of Mendelssohn scholars in the United States," R. Larry Todd is Arts & Sciences Professor at Duke University, where he has taught for three decades. A Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the National Humanities Center, he is the author of Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, named Best Biography in 2003 by the Association of American Publishers.

She was a composer, a director, a pianist of the highest caliber, and a scholar of Bach. Fanny Hensel -- the older sister of Felix Mendelssohn - but who was she and why was she not able to enjoy the world of the celebrated musician? A new authoritative biography paints a portrait of a woman ahead of her time whose music is only just becoming more widely known.


Fanny Hensel - The Other Mendelssohn

Recognized in the New York Times as "the dean of Mendelssohn scholars in the United States," R. Larry Todd is Arts & Sciences Professor at Duke University, where he has taught for three decades. A Guggenheim Fellow and Fellow of the National Humanities Center, he is the author of Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, named Best Biography in 2003 by the Association of American Publishers.


R. Larry Todd

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