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 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 Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works, and explores how the composer's personal life affected his work.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 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 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:
Download or read book The Life of Mendelssohn written by Peter Mercer-Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-28 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography traces Mendelssohn's development from dazzling child prodigy to renowned composer and conductor.
Download or read book Felix Mendelssohn and His Times written by Heinrich Eduard Jacob and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1973 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written by Wilhelm Adolf Lampadius and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 290 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 . 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 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 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 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 Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written by Wilhelm Adolf 1812-1892 Lampadius and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This German-language biography offers a comprehensive look at the life and work of the composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. It covers his childhood, his musical upbringing and education, his accomplishments as a performer and composer, and his personal relationships and struggles. The author provides detailed analysis of Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's major works and situates them within the broader cultural context of the 19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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 Mendelssohn written by R. Larry Todd and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this biography, the author offers a fresh account of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, based upon painstaking research in autograph manuscripts, correspondence, diaries and paintings.
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 Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Classic Reprint written by Wilhelm Adolf Lampadius and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Padins, a friend of his, a musical amateur, and evidently a man Of nice tastes and of high-toned character, wrote a biography of the great com poser, which has been made the basis of all the smaller sketches of his life, but which now appears in a literal translation from the German for the first time. It may be said of it, that it is not the best biography of Mendelssohn that could be written, but it is the best and indeed the only one that has been written, or is likely to be for some time. Doubtless, the time will come when this. 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 Mendelssohn is on the Roof written by Jiří Weil and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Julius Schlesinger, aspiring SS officer, has received orders to remove from the roof of Prague's concert hall the statue of the Jewish composer Felix Mendelssohn. But which of the figures adorning the roof is the Jew? Remembering his course on racial science, Schlesinger instructs his men to pull down the statue with the biggest nose. Only as the statue they have carefully chosen begins to topple does he recognize that it is not Mendelssohn; it is Richard Wagner. Thus begins a story of disarming simplicity that traces the transformation of ordinary lives in Nazi-occupied Prague. Death abetted by the petty malevolence of Nazi functionaries wins all the battles but ultimately loses the war, defeated by the fragile flowering of courage and defiance.
