Mendelssohn and His World (eBook)

R. Larry Todd (Herausgeber)

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2012
428 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-3162-3 (ISBN)

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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 Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his contemporaries, the composer's own letters, and early critical reviews of his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 "e;Why, O Lord, delay forever?"e; (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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.1.2012
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Reihe/Serie: The Bard Music Festival
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Schlagworte: Adolf Bernhard Marx • Adolphe Adam • Alan Tyson • Alexander's Feast (Handel) • August Wilhelm Schlegel • Biedermeier • Bruno Bauer • Carl Friedrich Zelter • Composer • Conradin Kreutzer • Daniel Itzig • Das Judenthum in der Musik • Die erste Walpurgisnacht • Die Gartenlaube • Die Hochzeit • Die Hochzeit des Camacho • Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg • Donald Mitchell (writer) • Eduard Hanslick • Elijah (oratorio) • Ernest Newman • Ernst Rudorff • Essenes • Felix Mendelssohn • Festschrift • Franz Brendel • Franz Lachner • Franz Liszt • Franz Marc • Friedrich Halm • Friedrich Schiller • Friedrich Schleiermacher • Friedrich Schneider • Friedrich Wieck • George Grove • George Steiner • Gewandhaus • Giacomo Meyerbeer • Hans Heiling • Haydn and Mozart • Hector Berlioz • Hegelianism • Heinrich Heine • Henriette Herz • Henri Herz • Hensel • Ignaz Moscheles • Igor Stravinsky • Israel in Egypt • Johannes Brahms • Johann Friedrich Reichardt • Joseph Joachim • Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld • KANTIANISM • Karl August Varnhagen von Ense • Leon Botstein • Leon Plantinga • Licht • Lobgesang • Louis Spohr • Ludwig Rellstab • Ludwig Tieck • Ludwig van Beethoven • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Luigi Cherubini • Max Reger • Mendelssohn family • Moses Mendelssohn • Moses und Aron • Motet • Music publisher (sheet music) • Muzio Clementi • Neoclassicism • Norman Lebrecht • N. Simrock • Ophicleide • oratorio • Overture • Parody • Parsifal • Philipp Veit • pietism • Pyramus and Thisbe • Reinterpretation • Richard Strauss • Richard Wagner • Romanticism • Rubinstein • Schumann • Sinfonia (Berio) • Singakademie • Stasimon • St John Passion • st matthew passion • The Philosopher • Tristan und Isolde • Wassily Kandinsky • Wilhelm Friedemann Bach • Wilhelm Hensel • Zeit
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-3162-8 / 1400831628
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-3162-3 / 9781400831623