| Description |
1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 59 min.)) : sound, color |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Credits |
Directed by Sheila Hayman. |
| Performer |
Narrator and interviewer, Sheila Hayman; interviewees: Felix Mendelssohn's descendants, Walter Hayman, Cecile Lowenthal-Hersel, Maria Schuetze; musicologists, R. Larry Todd, Norman Lebrecht, Jeffrey S. Sposato, Paul Weindling, Eric Levi, Lord Claus Moser; musicians, Daniel Hope, Steven Isserlis, Kurt Mazur, Asaf Levi. |
| Summary |
This film by Felix Mendelssohn's descendant tells the extraordinary story of what happened, generations after Mendelssohn's life, to his family and music when the Nazis remembered the Jewish roots of Germany's most celebrated composer. |
| Audience |
Not rated. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Note |
GMD: electronic resource. |
| Subject |
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847.
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Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, 1809-1847 -- Biography. -- Family.
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Composers -- Germany -- Biography.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Influence.
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts.
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Jews -- Germany -- Identity.
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Hayman, Sheila. Director. Screenwriter. Interviewer.
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Todd, R. Larry. Interviewee. Instrumentalist.
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Sposato, Jeffrey S. Interviewee.
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Weindling, Paul. Interviewee.
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Lebrecht, Norman, 1948- Interviewee.
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Levi, Éric, 1955- Interviewee.
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Moser, Claus, Sir, 1922- Interviewee.
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Hope, Daniel, 1974- Interviewee. Instrumentalist.
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Isserlis, Steven, 1958- Interviewee. Instrumentalist.
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Masur, Kurt. Interviewee.
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Leṿi, Asaf. Interviewee. Instrumentalist.
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Hayman, W. K. (Walter Kurt), 1926- Interviewee.
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Schuetze, Maria. Interviewee.
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Lowenthal-Hersel, Cecile. Interviewee.
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| Added Title |
hoopla (Digital media service)
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| Music No. |
MWT11481352 |
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