1920s Berlin was a wild place, and two of its wildest celebrities were descendants of the German Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn. The biography, “‘Is There Anything More Beautiful Than Desire?’: The ...

Given history's vagaries, even a long-dead composer's "complete" works are not necessarily complete, not with possible discoveries still lurking in libraries and archives. R. Larry Todd knows this, ...

How ugly were these porcelain monkeys? Ugly enough that when the West Berlin Senate tried to put one of them in a 1978 museum exhibition about Prussia, a different one was substituted because the ...