A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Mendel, Hermann

MENDEL, Hermann, editor of the largest and most comprehensive dictionary of music that has yet appeared, born at Halle, Aug. 6, 1834. He studied music with energy in Leipzig and Berlin. From 1862 to 68 he carried on a music business in the latter city, and at the same time wrote in various musical periodicals and took an active part in music generally. His lives of Meyerbeer and Otto Nicolai have been published separately. In 1870 Mendel started the work already mentioned—'Musikalisches Conversations-Lexikon,' and completed in 11 vols.—with the help of a large and distinguished staff of writers. He died on Oct. 26, 1876, and the Lexicon has been since completed in 11 vols. under the editorship of Dr. Reissmann. [App. p.716 "in 1883 the supplementary volume appeared, edited by Dr. Reissmann."]

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