Download or read book Mendelssohn and His World written by R. Larry Todd and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his contemporaries, the composer's own letters, and early critical reviews of his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 "Why, O Lord, delay forever?" (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.
Download or read book Memoirs of Felix Mendelssohn written by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 Mendelssohn Co A Fictive Memoir written by Rosemarie Bodenheimer and published by . This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early nineteenth-century German composers and pianists Felix Mendelssohn and his sister Fanny Hensel are familiar to many people, but few are aware of their younger siblings, Rebecka and Paul. Mendelssohn & Co. is an imagined portrait of this gifted Berlin family, whose lives were shaped by crucial developments in German culture and politics. It is told in the first person, through the eyes and memories of the youngest child, Paul, a gifted amateur cellist and a Berlin banker in the family firm of Mendelssohn & Co. Though Paul's youth is overshadowed by the early fame of the musical prodigies, he outlives his three siblings and becomes a quiet mainstay of his extended family. After the premature deaths of Fanny and Felix in 1847, Paul struggles to protect their legacies and to guide their orphaned sons. His story is closely based on the historical record, but the scenes and dialogues Paul reconstructs are fictional, as are many of his private thoughts and meditations. His personal concerns include the ambiguities of their status as privileged Jewish children baptized into the Lutheran faith, the rapid growth of German and Russian railway lines financed by Mendelssohn & Co., and the shift from classical to Romantic styles in music.
Download or read book Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written by Elise Polko and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 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 Mendelssohns written by John Michael Cooper and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since about 1970 there has been a veritable renaissance in scholarship and performances concerning the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel. The essays in this book, presenting the findings of three generations of members of the international community of Mendelssohn/Hensel scholars, constitute a compendium of cutting-edge research relating to these two important representatives of nineteenth-century musical culture.
Download or read book Memoirs of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written by Wilhelm Adolf Lampadius and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My Recollections of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and His Letters to Me written by Eduard Devrient and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn written by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-47), pianist and composer, maintained a prolific and witty correspondence with her younger brother Felix over the course of approximately 25 years, which is here presented in English translation, with the original German for reference. As the leader of a vibrant salon, Hensel deploys her critical prowess to describe Berlin musical life, including its conservative institutions and personalities, as well as to evaluate Felix's works-in-progress in detail. We also learn about Hensel's own compositions, her attitudes toward herself as a composer, and the significance of Felix's views on the formation of those attitudes. Hensel's letters provide a fascinating glimpse into the problems and challenges facing gifted women musicians in the nineteenth century. The 150 letters are drawn from the Green Books collection of letters addressed to Felix Mendelssohn, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Reviews-These letters reveal Fanny Mendelssohn to be a thoroughly fascinating individual, one whose special relationship to Felix would be enough to guarantee the interest of the documents. But we soon become engrossed with Fanny herself, as composer, as critic, as musical commentator and figure in the musical life of Berlin. To watch this world through her eyes is to watch it come alive through the wisdom, wit, and grace of a remarkable person. Citron has a gift for rendering the substance and spirit of these letters into charming and effective English prose that preserves something of the formality of nineteenth-century discourse together with the passion and spirit of Fanny Mendelssohn. Philip Gossett ...reading this volume is a pleasure, not just a musicological duty. Clifford Bartlettthe volume contains penetrating and highly scholarly critical commentaries and is a valuable addition to mendelssohniana. J.R. Belanger, Choice, April 1988
Download or read book Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy a Social and Artistic Biography Primary Source Edition written by Elise Polko and published by . This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written by Elise Polko and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-05 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: A Social and Artistic Biography Dr. Sterndale Bennett has authorized the publication of a letter from M. Ferdinand David, written at the time of the gifted Mas ter's lamented death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written by John Michael Cooper and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-05-03 with total page 305 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 Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sketch of the Life and Works of the Late Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written by Julius Benedict and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 118 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:
