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=== Personality === [[File:Ansicht von Luzern - Aquarell Mendelsohn 1847FXD.jpg|thumb|left|alt= |View of [[Lucerne]] β watercolour by Mendelssohn, 1847]] While Mendelssohn was often presented as equable, happy, and placid in temperament, particularly in the detailed family memoirs published by his nephew Sebastian Hensel after the composer's death,{{sfn|Hensel|1884|p=}} this was misleading. The music historian R. Larry Todd notes "the remarkable process of idealization" of Mendelssohn's character "that crystallized in the memoirs of the composer's circle", including Hensel's.{{sfn|Todd|2003|p=xxii}} The nickname "discontented Polish count" was given to Mendelssohn on account of his aloofness, and he referred to the epithet in his letters.{{sfn|Devrient|1869|p=182n}} He was frequently given to fits of temper which occasionally led to collapse. Devrient mentions that on one occasion in the 1830s, when his wishes had been crossed, "his excitement was increased so fearfully ... that when the family was assembled ... he began to talk incoherently in English. The stern voice of his father at last checked the wild torrent of words; they took him to bed, and a profound sleep of twelve hours restored him to his normal state".{{sfn|Devrient|1869|p=91}} Such fits may be related to his early death.{{sfn|Sterndale Bennett|1955|p=376}} Mendelssohn was an enthusiastic visual artist who worked in pencil and [[watercolour]], a skill which he enjoyed throughout his life.{{sfn|Brown|2003|pp=47β53}}<ref>[http://www.themendelssohnproject.org/about_tmp/activities/artworks_2.htm "Visual Artwork by Felix Mendelssohn"], ''The Mendelssohn Project'' website. Retrieved 3 December 2017.</ref> His correspondence indicates that he could write with considerable wit in German and English β his letters were sometimes accompanied by humorous sketches and cartoons.{{sfn|Mendelssohn|1986|pp=xβxiii}}
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