R. Larry Todd is Arts & Sciences Professor at Duke University. His books include MENDELSSOHN: A LIFE IN MUSIC, described as “likely to be the standard biography for a long time to come” (New York Review of Books), and FANNY HENSEL: THE OTHER MENDELSSOHN, which received the ASCAP Slonimsky Prize. A fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation and National Humanities Center, he edits the Master Musician Series (Oxford University Press). As a pianist, he has recorded the complete cello/piano works of the Mendelssohns for JRI Recordings. Among his recent books are Discovering Music and, with co-author Marc Moskovitz, Beethoven’s Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World.