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 Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his contemporaries, the composer's own letters, and early critical reviews of his music, this volume explores various facets of Mendelssohn's music, his social and intellectual circles, and his career. The essays in Part I cover the nature of a Jewish identity in Mendelssohn's music (Leon Botstein); his relationship to the Berlin Singakademie (William A. Little); the role of his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and accomplished composer (Nancy Reich); Mendelssohn's compositional craft in the Italian Symphony and selected concert overtures (Claudio Spies); his oratorio Elijah (Martin Staehelin); his incidental music to Sophocles' Antigone (Michael P. Steinberg); his anthem "Why, O Lord, delay forever?" (David Brodbeck); and an unfinished piano sonata (R. Larry Todd). Part II presents little-known memoirs by such contemporaries as J. C. Lobe, A. B. Marx, Julius Schubring, C. E. Horsley, Max Mller, and Betty Pistor. Mendelssohn's letters are represented in Part III by his correspondence with Wilhelm von Boguslawski and Aloys Fuchs, here translated for the first time. Part IV contains late nineteenth-century critical reviews by Heinrich Heine, Franz Brendel, Friedrich Niecks, Otto Jahn, and Hans von Blow.
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Mendelssohn and His World... is richly textured in its approaches-music-, social-, and religious-historical; biographical; analytic; and documentary-and, what is perhaps more rewarding, in the implicit dialogues engendered by its inherent multiplicity of voices. -- Notes
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public without restraint.) It was made up of the presumed victims of capitalism, the traditional peoples of the nation, and it excluded Jews and their cronies, the journalists. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Felix Mendelssohn, New York, Fanny Hensel, Eduard Hanslick, Moses Mendelssohn, Herr Fuchs, Bodleian Library, Karl Klingemann, Larry Todd, Eduard Devrient, Midsummer Night's Dream, Eric Werner, Bruno Hake, Robert Schumann, Sebastian Bach, Frederick William, Aloys Fuchs, Richard Wagner, Charlotte Moscheles, Green Books, Hebrides Overture, Julius Schubring, Matthew Passion, Old Testament, Abraham Mendelssohn New!
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- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (Picture Books , Special) by Bodleian Library on 12 pages
- Mendelssohn and Schumann: Essays on Their Music and Its Context by Jon Finson on 6 pages
- Mendelssohn: A New Image of the Composer and His Age by Eric Werner on 6 pages
- Johann Sebastian Bach by Paul Lang on 5 pages
- Piano Music by Mendelssohn on page 182, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Guide to Research with an Introduction to Research Concerning Fanny Hensel (Routledge Music Bibliographies) by John Michael Cooper on 22 pages
- The Life of Mendelssohn (Musical Lives) by Peter Mercer-Taylor on 7 pages
- The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History by John Michael Cooper on 7 pages
- Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohns Revival of the St. Matthew Passion by Celia Applegate on 6 pages
- The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition by Jeffrey S. Sposato on 6 pages
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