Authored by leading scholars in the field, this collection of fourteen essays surveys the life, work, and posthumous reception of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish composer. Sections cover aspects of biography as well as Felix Mendelssohn's expansive and multi-faceted musical output. Two closing essays confront the turbulent course of his posthumous reception and the challenges his music continues to pose for modern performers.
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This collection of fourteen essays, authored by leading scholars in the field, surveys the life, work, and posthumous reception of nineteenth-century German-Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn. While engaging with the most up-to-date scholarly literature, each chapter also provides sufficient background information to make the volume effective as an introduction to Mendelssohn for the virtual newcomer. Following sections on aspects of biography and on Mendelssohn's expansive and multi-faceted musical output, two closing essays confront the turbulent course of Mendelssohn's posthumous reception and the challenges his music continues to pose for modern performers.
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This book is perfectly OK, but its existence became almost entirely redundant with the publication of Larry Todd's excellent "Mendelssohn: A Life in Music." Readers wishing to understand this composer's legacy are better off reading Dr. Todd's book.
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By his twenty-first year, Felix Mendelssohn had completed a handful of orchestral and chamber works that placed him among the front ranks of contemporary composers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early concertos, posthumous reception, concerto form, chorale cantatas, double exposition, concert overtures, religious kitsch, tonic pitch, concerted works, imitative counterpoint, opening motive, musical progress, sonata form, double concerto, piano quartet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Felix Mendelssohn, Moses Mendelssohn, Eric Werner, Midsummer Night's Dream, Matthew Passion, Robert Schumann, Friedrich Wilhelm, Die Hochzeit des Camacho, Larry Todd, Lauda Sion, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Clara Schumann, Die Lorelei, Fanny Hensel, Eduard Devrient, Friedhelm Krummacher, Grand Tour, Thomas Grey, Abraham Mendelssohn, Die Heimkehr, Ferdinand Hiller, Ignaz Moscheles, Leon Botstein, Neue Zeitschrift, Old Testament New!
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By his twenty-first year, Felix Mendelssohn had completed a handful of orchestral and chamber works that placed him among the front ranks of contemporary composers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
early concertos, posthumous reception, concerto form, chorale cantatas, double exposition, concert overtures, religious kitsch, tonic pitch, concerted works, imitative counterpoint, opening motive, musical progress, sonata form, double concerto, piano quartet Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Felix Mendelssohn, Moses Mendelssohn, Eric Werner, Midsummer Night's Dream, Matthew Passion, Robert Schumann, Friedrich Wilhelm, Die Hochzeit des Camacho, Larry Todd, Lauda Sion, Carl Friedrich Zelter, Clara Schumann, Die Lorelei, Fanny Hensel, Eduard Devrient, Friedhelm Krummacher, Grand Tour, Thomas Grey, Abraham Mendelssohn, Die Heimkehr, Ferdinand Hiller, Ignaz Moscheles, Leon Botstein, Neue Zeitschrift, Old Testament New!
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- Fanny Mendelssohn (Amadeus) by Francoise Tillard on 8 pages
- Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by R. Larry Todd on 8 pages
- The Romantic Generation (Charles Eliot Norton Lectures) by Charles Rosen on 7 pages
- Mendelssohn and Schumann: Essays on Their Music and Its Context by Jon Finson on 6 pages
- Piano Music by Mendelssohn on 6 pages
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- Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohns Revival of the St. Matthew Passion by Celia Applegate on page 249, and Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Haydn (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Caryl Clark in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Opera (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Mervyn Cooke in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Simon P. Keefe in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Liszt (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Kenneth Hamilton in Back Matter
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