Adolf Bernhard Marx
Adolphe Adam
Alan Tyson
Alexander's Feast (Handel)
August Wilhelm Schlegel
Carl Friedrich Zelter
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Conradin Kreutzer
Daniel Itzig
Das Judenthum in der Musik
Die erste Walpurgisnacht
Die Hochzeit
Die Hochzeit des Camacho
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg
Donald Mitchell (writer)
Eduard Hanslick
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Ernest Newman
Ernst Rudorff
Essenes
Felix Mendelssohn
Franz Brendel
Franz Marc
Friedrich Halm
Friedrich Schiller
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schneider
Friedrich Wieck
George Grove
George Steiner
Gewandhaus
Giacomo Meyerbeer
Hans Heiling
Hector Berlioz
Hegelianism
Heinrich Heine
Hensel
Ignaz Moscheles
Igor Stravinsky
Israel in Egypt
Johann Friedrich Reichardt
Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld
Karl August Varnhagen von Ense
Leon Botstein
Leon Plantinga
Louis Spohr
Ludwig Rellstab
Ludwig Tieck
Ludwig van Beethoven
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Luigi Cherubini
Max Reger
Mendelssohn family
Moses Mendelssohn
Moses und Aron
Muzio Clementi
Oratorio
Parody
Philipp Veit
Pyramus and Thisbe
Richard Strauss
Richard Wagner
Romanticism
Rubinstein
Schumann
Sinfonia (Berio)
St John Passion
The Philosopher
Wassily Kandinsky
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Hensel
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Product details
- ISBN 9780691027159
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Aug 1991
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his contemporaries, the composer's own letters, and early critical reviews of his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.
