Mendelssohn Finds the St. Matthew Passion; At the Ocean; Study: How the Leaf Falls

Mendelssohn Finds the St. Matthew Passion   Myth has it that Mendelssohn rediscovered Bach’s lost manuscripts, which had been used to wrap fish. He did not.   Strolling through Leipzig in early winter snow, he stops at a fish stall. Felix, they call him, happy, because a skyful of glossy crows roosts in his mind. […]