 Such opinions are evidence of how a more nuanced appreciation of Mendelssohn 's work has developed over the last 50 years , together with the publication of a number of modern biographies placing his achievements in context . Mercer @-@ Taylor comments on the irony that " this broad @-@ based reevaluation of Mendelssohn 's music is made possible , in part , by a general disintegration of the idea of a musical canon " , an idea which Mendelssohn " as a conductor , pianist and scholar " had done so much to establish . 
