George H. de Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 75;
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Founder of Vox Records
George H. de Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, 75, a founder of Vox Records, a classical line that introduced many European artists to American audiences and who also was a fourth-generation descendant of composer Felix Mendelssohn. Vox Records was established in 1945, just before the advent of the long-playing record, and offered the first complete recordings of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and complete or nearly complete cycles of music by Vivaldi, Corelli and others. In Dusseldorf, West Germany, on Aug. 31 of cancer.
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