The Mendelssohns

Their Music in History
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-816723-5
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 406 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 775 g

This is a compendium of scholarship concerning the lives, works, and receptions of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel. Representing the latest work of leading specialists from the USA, France, Great Britain, and Italy, the essays are organized according to a number of issues that have become vital during the past 20 years: sources and source problems--including the disposition of missing and lost works, issues of musical identity as they pertain to little-known concert arias, and editorial issues presented by the organ preludes op. 37; studies of individual works--including Felix Mendelssohn's first composition, the 'Scottish' and 'Reformation' symphonies, and Die erste Walpurgisnacht); problematic repertoires--Felix's occasional works, song cycles, and opera plans; the relationships between Felix and Fanny; and issues of reception history--including Felix's influences as composer of organ music and string quartets, and gender and race in biographical studies of Felix.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cooper, John Michael

Prandi, Julie D.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Einzelne Komponisten und Musiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik Geschichte der Musik: Romantik (ca. 1830-1900)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- List of Plates

- List of Figures

- List of Tables

- List of Musical Examples

- List of Contributors

- Abbreviations

- Part I: Sources and Source Problems

- 1.: Ralf Wehner: 'It seeems to have been lost': On Missing and Recovered Mendelssohn Sources

- 2.: Pietro Zappalà: Editorial Problems in Mendelssohn's Organ Preludes, Op. 37

- 3.: John Michael Cooper: Mendelssohn's TwoInfelice Arias: Problems of Sources and Musical Identity

- Part II: Individual Works

- 4.: Peter Ward Jones: Mendelssohn's First Composition

- 5.: Wolfgang Dinglinger: The Programme of Mendelssohn's 'Reformation' Symphony, Op. 107

- 6.: Julie D. Prandi: Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die erste Walpurgisnacht

- 7.: Thomas Schmidt-Beste: Just how 'Scottish' is the 'Scottish' Symphony? Thoughts on Poetic Content and Form in Mendelssohn's Opus 56

- Part III: Repertoires

- 8.: Christoph Hellmundt: 'Indessen wollte ich mich Ihnen gern gefällig beweisen': On Some Occasional Works, with an Unknown Composition by Mendelssohn

- 9.: Monika Hennemann: 'So kann ich es nicht componiren': Mendelssohn, Opera, and the Libretto Problem

- 10.: Douglass Seaton: Mendelssohn's Cycles of Songs

- Part IV: Felix and Fanny

- 11.: Hans-Günter Klein: Similarities and Differences in the Artistic Development of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in a Family Context: Observations on Selected Works from 1820 to 1823 in the Berlin Autograph Volumes

- 12.: R. Larry Todd: On Stylistic Commonalities in the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

- 13.: Camilla Cai: Virtuoso Texture in Fanny Hensel's Piano Music

- 14.: Françoise Tillard: Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel: The Search for Perfection in Opposing Private and Public Works

- Part V: Reception History

- 15.: William A. Little: Felix Mendelssohn and his Place in the Organ World of his Time

- 16.: Friedhelm Krummacher: Epigones of an Epigone? Concerning Mendelssohn's String Quartets--and the Consequences

- 17.: Marian Wilson Kimber: The Composer as Other: Gender and Race in the Biography of Felix Mendelssohn

- Select Bibliography

- Index