Download or read book Felix Mendelssohn His Life His Family His Music written by Herbert Kupferberg and published by New York : C. Scribner's Sons. This book was released on 1972-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the German composer of "Midsummer Night's Dream" with emphasis on his happy family life and analyses of his music.
Download or read book The Life and Times of Felix Mendelssohn written by Susan Zannos and published by Mitchell Lane. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most 19th Century composers who had to struggle to make a living, Felix Mendelssohn came from a very wealthy family. He never had to work, but he worked harder to fulfill his family s expectations than many who suffered poverty. He was an extremely gifted musical genius who wrote some of his best works while he was still a teenager. Mendelssohn gained fame as a conductor, and as the organizer of many music festivals in Germany and in England where he was always enthusiastically welcomed. Unlike some composers who only performed their own work, Mendelssohn had a passion for presenting the best music of all periods. He was also very generous in helping younger composers by playing their work. His weakness was being unable to say no to the many requests he received for performances. He was a perfectionist who devoted his energy to presenting the highest possible level of musical perfection. As his fame spread, he had little time left for his own compositions. Mendelssohn died at the age of 38, essentially from exhaustion brought on by overworking.
Download or read book Mendelssohn written by R. Larry Todd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor. Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant.
Download or read book Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847 written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Letters of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847" by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written by Wilhelm Adolf Lampadius and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mendelssohn written by Mary Allerton-North and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 663 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although much has been written about Felix Mendelssohn over the past 150 years, biographers have tended to regurgitate earlier narratives, which have incorporated myths, misrepresentations and even falsehoods about his family. Thus, the word 'unique' can be truthfully applied to Mendelssohn - The Caged Spirit. Not only is this the first Mendelssohn biography to be written by a woman psychotherapist (rather than from the usual male musicologist's standpoint), but Mary Allerton-North does not take statements hitherto 'set in stone' at face value. She challenges such inaccuracies for the first time, analysing what actually happened in the Mendelssohn chronicle, with regard to both his musical and his personal life. Mendelssohn was in many ways complex and in many ways very simple. He was complex because of his family background: he was born into a wealthy German Jewish family at the beginning of the 19th century and by the age of seven was playing the piano, painting, writing poetry, speaking several languages and starring as a precocious athlete. He helped revive Bach's music in Europe, he knew Goethe and although the poet was seventy and Mendelssohn only twelve when they met, they became friends. Henry Kelly, of Classic FM says: "This is a remarkable book, by a remarkable writer, about a remarkable man. Mary Allerton-North has produced a tour de force of scholarship and insight to celebrate the life, times and musical genius of Felix Mendelssohn... ...I recommend this engaging, page-turning book from an author who has enthusiasm, professional insight and fluency of narrative style. Mary Allerton-North has written for us what will remain for a long time to come the definitive work on a musician who can comfortably be spoken of in the same breath as Bach, Beethoven and the other greats. If you doubt that, read this book!"
Download or read book Felix Mendelssohn a Life in Letters written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and published by Froom International Pub. This book was released on 1990 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected letters by the nineteenth century German composer to his family, friends, and colleagues help document the developing concerns of his life.
Download or read book Mendelssohn written by Eric Werner and published by [New York] : Free Press of Glencoe. This book was released on 1963 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mendelssohn is the only great composer of the last 150 years of whom there does not exist a comprehensive standard biography. The reasons for this strange fact are explained in this book. The author, the first scholar who was granted access to the hitherto closely guarded archives of the Mendelssohn family, worked on the book for over a decade. Mendelssohn has been identified with a certain type of drawing-room romanticism or simply dismissed as a shallow eclectic. The author shows how these prejudices were based either upon ignorance of his great works, his heavily censored correspondence, or even upon certain slogans coined by Richard Wagner, G. B. Shaw, or German racists. The author reveals a totally new image of the man, his personality, his work and his time. The author examined more than 8000 unpublished letters written by or to the composer. In one case he discovered a flagrant forgery of documents concerning Mendelssohn's relationship with Robert Schumann, and there are many other instances where his study of these records uncovers new vistas and destroy old impressions. Some of these letters deal with problems of Judaism and Christianity, the spiritual heritage of grandfather Moses Mendelssohn, and the problems of assimilation in general. In the analytical chapters the author, a noted composer and musicologist, discusses some of the 200 unpublished compositions and most of the published works of the master. He treats the music from a modern point of view, stressing hidden thematic integrations and finesses of form, emphasizing certain highly original conceptions. Finally, the author comes to grips with the concept of "musical romanticism." His views on this subject are radical and they will certainly evoke interest and controversy. The closing chapter is devoted to Mendelssohn's problematic status in the history of music. Covering the life of the composer; the social and genealogical background of his family; the position of German Jewry before the emancipation; Mendelssohn's relations with Goethe, Hegel, Heine, Berlioz, Dickens, Wagner, Chopin, Schumann, and other leading figures of his time, and the influence of his work on later music.
Download or read book The Mendelssohn Family 1729 1847 from Letters and Journals written by Sebastian Hensel and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mendelssohn s Musical Education written by R. Larry Todd and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-04-21 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study and critical edition of Mendelssohn's composition exercise book from his early period of study with Carl Friedrich Zelter (1819-1821). The workbook illustrates in considerable detail the young musician's struggle to master the rules of part writing and principles of counterpoint. Much of Zelter's systematic teaching method is grounded in the eighteenth-century theoretical tradition of Berlin; not surprisingly, the exercises bear the stamp of the music of J. S. Bach, which heavily influenced such Berlin musicians as C. P. E. Bach, C. F. C. Fasch, Marpurg, Kirnberger, Zelter and Mendelssohn. There is little doubt that the historicist attitude of the mature Mendelssohn - as seen in his efforts to revive the works of Bach and Handel and in his propensity toward strict contrapuntal techniques in his own music - was conditioned by these studies with Zelter. The publication of the workbook sheds new light on the early development of one ofthe most important nineteenth-century composers who, though affected by the new wave of romanticism that swept over Europe, never lost his respect for the past. No less important, the manuscript includes several previously unpublished pieces which rank among Mendelssohn's earliest compositions.
Download or read book Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written by John Michael Cooper and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide is a valuable tool for any scholar, performer, or music student interested in accessing the most pertinent resources on the life, works, and cultural context of the composer. It is an updated, annotated bibliography of resources on the biographical, musical, and religious aspects of Mendelssohn's life.
Download or read book Fanny Hensel written by R. Larry Todd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, R. Larry Todd offers a compelling, authoritative account of Hensel's life and music, and her struggle to emerge as a publicly recognized composer.
Download or read book Mendelssohn written by Mozelle Moshansky and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mendelssohn and His World written by R. Larry Todd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, R. Larry Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant, based upon painstaking research in autograph manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and paintings. Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works, and explores how the composer's personal life affected his work. Mendelssohn: A Life offers a masterful blend of biography and musical analysis. Readers will discover many new facets of the familiar but misunderstood composer and gain new perspectives on one of the most formidable musical geniuses of all time.
Download or read book The Mendelssohn Family 1729 1847 from Letters and Journals written by Sebastian Hensel and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mendelssohn Family 1729 1847 written by Sebastian Hensel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book On Wings of Song written by Wilfrid Blunt and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1974 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
