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Mendelssohn Essays - R. Larry Todd

Mendelssohn Essays

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Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2007
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-415-97814-9 (ISBN)
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Explores Mendelssohn's precocity, his musical impressions of British culture, the role of the visual in his music, his compositional response to Bach's St Matthew Passion, and incomplete drafts from his musical estate of three instrumental works.
When R. Larry Todd’s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn’s life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about the composer and his music, his family and his peers, and his complex reception history. Now, as we approach the 2009 bicentenary of Mendelssohn’s birth, the author has chosen and compiled fifteen essays written between 1980 and 2005, including five previously unpublished, that examine several aspects of the composer whom Goethe and Heine likened to a second Mozart.

Mendelssohn Essays explores Mendelssohn’s precocity, his musical impressions of British culture, the role of the visual in his music, his compositional response to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and incomplete drafts from his musical estate of three instrumental works. In addition, a group of three essays focuses on the music of Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny Hensel, perhaps the most gifted woman composer of the century, and a significant, complex figure in the formation of the Mendelssohnian style.

R. Larry Todd is Professor of Musicology at Duke University. Hailed as "The dean of Mendelssohn scholars in the United States" by the New York Times, he has lectured and published widely on 19th century Romantic music. He is editor of the series Routledge Musical Genres.

1. Constructions of Mendelssohn and Britishness 2. Mendelssohn Motifs Mendelssohn’s Music 3. Mendelssohn’s Ossianic Manner 4. On the Visual in Mendelssohn’s Music 5. On Mendelssohn’s Sacred Music, Real and Imaginary 6. On Mendelssohn’s Operatic Destiny: Die Lorelei Reconsidered 7. The Chamber Music of Mendelssohn 8. New Light on Mendelssohn’s Freie Phantasie (1840) 9. Me voilà perruqué: Mendelssohn’s Six Preludes and Fugues Op. 35 Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel 10. Becoming a Composer: Fanny Hensel and Musical Style 11. On Stylistic Affinities between the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy 12. Issues of Stylistic Identity in Fanny Hensel’s Das Jahr Compositional Process 13. The Unfinished Mendelssohn 14. An Unfinished Piano Concerto by Mendelssohn 15. An Unfinished Symphony by Mendelssohn

Erscheint lt. Verlag 26.10.2007
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 612 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik
ISBN-10 0-415-97814-9 / 0415978149
ISBN-13 978-0-415-97814-9 / 9780415978149
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