As to Mendelssohn, I personally find myself responding much more to his
f minor string quartet and B-flat major string quintet than to the music
of his youth, great though that is.  The former is to me the music of
a composer of whom it could not be said he never "fully utilized" his
genius...  genius that, more than potential, calls to me fully realized
from every bar of the f minor quartet.  A personal opinion only, though.

Eric Schissel
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