Listening to Mendelssohn
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Listener's Guide
Mendelssohn
Midsummer Night's Dream
Music Appreciation
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Romantic Music
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Songs Without Words
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- ISBN 9781574675009
- Format: Mixed media product
- Weight: 358g
- Dimensions: 154 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 07 Jan 2020
- Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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The greatest musical prodigy since Mozart (some would say he was even greater), Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847) excelled in everything he did, musical or otherwise, and during his brief life became Europe’s most respected and beloved composer. Yet no musician suffered more drastic swings in his posthumous reputation, and as a result Mendelssohn’s music was obscured by a host of extra-musical factors: changes in taste, the rise of nationalism, anti-Semitism, and contempt for Victorian culture. This “owner’s manual” offers a guide to Mendelssohn’s musical output, major and minor, providing points of entry into a large body of work, much of which remains far too little known. There’s much more to Mendelssohn than the “Italian” Symphony and the “Midsummer Night’s Dream” Overture, and a whole creative world of vivid, expressive, and fantastical music is ready for exploration.
Music critic, percussionist, and author David Hurwitz is the founder and Executive Editor of Classicstoday.com, the internet’s first classical music review magazine. Holding MA degrees from Johns Hopkins and Stanford universities, Hurwitz is the author of books on Mozart, Mahler, Sibelius, Haydn, Dvorák, Brahms, Beethoven, Shostakovich, R. Strauss, CPE Bach, Bernstein, and Handel, published under the Amadeus Press and Continuum imprints. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he currently divides his time between Brooklyn, New York, and Milford, Connecticut.
