Mendelssohn and His World /

Mendelssohn and His World / / ed. by R. Larry Todd.

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During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German and English musical life. Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his co...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Botstein, Leon,
Brendel, Franz,
Brodbeck, David,
Gillespie, Susan,
Hake, Bruno,
Hanslick, Eduard,
Horsley, Charles Edward,
Jahn, Otto,
Little, WM. A.,
Lobe, Johann Christian,
Niecks, Friedrich,
Reich, Nancy B.,
Schubring, Julius,
Spies, Claudio,
Staehelin, Martin,
Steinberg, Michael P.,
Todd, R. Larry,
Von Bülow, Hans,
HerausgeberIn:
Todd, R. Larry,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©1991
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:The Bard Music Festival ; 30
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Physical Description:1 online resource (428 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I: ESSAYS
  • The Aesthetics of Assimilation and Affirmation: Reconstructing the Career of Felix Mendelssohn
  • Some Notes on an Anthem by Mendelssohn
  • Mendelssohn and the Berlin Singakademie: The Composer at the Crossroads
  • The Power of Class: Fanny Hensel
  • Samplings
  • Elijah, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the New Covenant: On the Aria "Es ist genug" in Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy''s Oratorio Elijah
  • The Incidental Politics to Mendelssohn's Antigone
  • The Unfinished Mendelssohn
  • PART II: MEMOIRS
  • Conversations with Felix Mendelssohn
  • From the Memoirs of Adolf Bernhard Marx
  • Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
  • Reminiscences of Mendelssohn by His English Pupil
  • From the Memoirs of F. Max Müller
  • From the Memoirs of Ernst Rudorff
  • PART III LETTERS
  • Letters from Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to Aloys Fuchs
  • Mendelssohn as Teacher
  • PART IV: CRITICISM AND RECEPTION
  • Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General
  • Heinrich Heine on Mendelssohn
  • On F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Oratorio Elijah
  • On Mendelssohn and Some of His Contemporary Critics
  • Felix Mendelssohn
  • Index of Names and Compositions
  • List of Contributors

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