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=== Mendelssohn and his contemporaries === [[File:Giacomo Meyerbeer Kriehuber.jpg|thumb|upright=0.6|Giacomo Meyerbeer by [[Josef Kriehuber]], 1847]] Throughout his life Mendelssohn was wary of the more radical musical developments undertaken by some of his contemporaries. He was generally on friendly, if sometimes somewhat cool, terms with [[Hector Berlioz]], [[Franz Liszt]], and [[Giacomo Meyerbeer]], but in his letters expresses his frank disapproval of their works, for example writing of Liszt that his compositions were "inferior to his playing, and [β¦] only calculated for virtuosos";{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|2000|p=144}} of Berlioz's overture ''[[Les francs-juges]]'' "[T]he orchestration is such a frightful muddle [...] that one ought to wash one's hands after handling one of his scores";{{sfn|Mercer-Taylor|2000|p=98}} and of Meyerbeer's opera ''[[Robert le diable]]'' "I consider it ignoble", calling its villain Bertram "a poor devil".{{sfn|Todd|2003|p=252}} When his friend the composer [[Ferdinand Hiller]] suggested in conversation to Mendelssohn that he looked rather like Meyerbeer β they were actually distant cousins, both descendants of Rabbi [[Moses Isserles]] β Mendelssohn was so upset that he immediately went to get a haircut to differentiate himself.{{sfn|Hiller|1874|pp=23β24}} In particular, Mendelssohn seems to have regarded Paris and its music with the greatest of suspicion and an almost puritanical distaste. Attempts made during his visit there to interest him in [[Saint-Simonianism]] ended in embarrassing scenes.{{sfn|Locke|1986|pp=107β114}} It is significant that the only musician with whom Mendelssohn remained a close personal friend, Ignaz Moscheles, was of an older generation and equally conservative in outlook. Moscheles preserved this conservative attitude at the Leipzig Conservatory until his own death in 1870.{{sfn|Conway|2012|pp=193β194}}
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