Unity in Variety (eBook)

Essays in Musicology for R. Larry Todd

Anna Harwell Celenza, Katharina Uhde (Herausgeber)

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2024 | 1. Auflage
356 Seiten
Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
978-3-99094-232-1 (ISBN)

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This Festschrift celebrates the great Mendelssohn scholar R. Larry Todd, Arts & Sciences Professor at Duke University, whose dedication to, study of, and mentorship in 19th-century music has shaped two generations of musicological study. Encompassing former/current students and colleagues, the contributing authors to this book investigate the life and work of the Mendelssohns, their circle, and issues of reception history; Beethoven and piano-related studies; and special musical relationships. The book's title references a famous quote by Felix Mendelssohn: 'The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.' It also acknowledges the thematic diversity of this volume and the unifying effect that Todd's outstanding monographs on Felix and Fanny have had on a variety of musicians and scholars.

Anna Harwell Celenza is a professor at John Hopkins University. Her first two books, 'The Early Works of Niels W. Gade' and 'Hans Christian Andersen and Music', grew out of her graduate work with R. Larry Todd. Her essay in this volume relates to her forthcoming book 'On the Record: Music that Changed America'. Katharina Uhde is a violinist - musicologist and practice - based researcher. She holds positions at Valparaiso University and LMU Munich. She is the author of 'The Music of Joseph Joachim', coeditor of two books, and has edited for Bärenreiter two compositions by Joseph Joachim.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

PREFACE

NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

I. THE LIFE AND WORK OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN

1 Singing without Words: Applying Mendelssohn's Aesthetics
Douglass Seaton

2 Mendelssohn's Fugue in E flat (R 23) and the echo of Beethoven
Benedict Taylor

3 A Brief Exploration of Mendelssohn's Cellists
Marc Moskowitz

4 Heart's Jewel: The "Sense" of Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, Op. 64
Robert Whitehouse Eshbach

5 Three Postludes to Mendelssohnian Research
Peter Ward Jones

II. MENDELSSOHN RECEPTION

6 Felix Mendelssohn's English Countenance as Reflected
in London Publications of His Vocal Chamber Music to ca. 1850
John Michael Cooper

7 Mendelssohn and the Question of German Guilt
Leon Botstein

8 To the Tomb of Genius: Heinrich, Mendelssohn,
and American Musical Ambition
Marian Wilson Kimber

9 "That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune":
from Tin Pan Alley to the Silver Screen
Anna Harwell Celenza

III. FANNY MENDELSSOHN HENSEL

10 Chorale Transformation and Triumph in Felix Mendelssohn's
Sinfonia VI and Fanny Hensel's Das Jahr
Claire Fontijn

11 From Excavation to Analysis: The Lieder of Fanny Hensel
Marcia J. Citron

12 Comprehending Heine in Fanny Hensel's "Schwanenlied"
Susan Youens

13 "Other" Mendelssohns: the Lied ohne Worte op. 19[b] no. 2
Angela R. Mace

IV. MENDELSSOHN'S CIRCLE

14 "The Woman for the New Era?":
Johanna Kinkel's Musical Exile in London
Monika Hennemann

15 Hearing Forward and Backward:
Clara Schumann's Romance in B Minor als Denkmal und Ruine
Emily Shyr

16 Schumann Fantasies: Scene and Style in Robin Holloway's Music
Philip Rupprecht

17 "My Last Hope in this Respect": The Saga of the Swedish
Composer Wilhelm Bauck's Correspondence with Felix Mendelssohn
Kirsten Santos Rutschman

18 Joseph Joachim in Oxford
Susan Wollenberg

19 "I felt as if I had found a diamond": The Mozart-Enthusiast
Sir William Sterndale Bennett in the Context of His
Multifaceted Mozart Revival
Walter Kurt Kreyszig

V. BEETHOVEN

20 Beethoven's "Tristan Chord"
Eric Wen

21 Enigma as Endgame: Reflections on Beethoven's
Penchant for Outwitting Finality
Raymond Knapp

VI. PIANO-RELATED STUDIES

22 Ferdinand Hiller and Franz Liszt: A Friendship Built
at the Keyboard, Then Sundered and Never Healed
Ralph P. Locke and Jürgen Thym

23 A Study in Sycophancy: Gottfried Galston,
Ferruccio Busoni, and Late Romantic Pianism
Kenneth Hamilton

VII. AFTERTHOUGHTS: REFLECTIONS ON MUSICAL RELATIONSHIPS

24 When Breath Becomes Air:
Eternal Echoes in Seóirse Bodley's "Wandrers Nachtlied"
Lorraine Byrne Bodley

25 "Becoming" Joseph Joachim, or, "Becoming"
Johannes Brahms, the Composer of Violin Concerto Op. 77 (1878)
Katharina Uhde


List of Figures, Music Examples and Tables

Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 6.11.2024
• Verlagsort: Wien
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Musikgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 19th-century music • Festschrift • Mendelssohn • musicology • R. Larry Todd • unity in variety
• ISBN-10: 3-99094-232-8 / 3990942328
• ISBN-13: 978-3-99094-232-1 / 9783990942321