Mendelssohn Studies (Cambridge Composer Studies)
Edition: Reissue edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9780521028899
Subjects: Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Composers & musicians; Music/Songbooks; Music; General; Individual Composer & Musician; Music / General; Music-General; History & Criticism - General; 1809-1847; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix,
First sentence: In his monograph The Music of the Nineteenth Century and its Culture (1855), the critic and theorist Adolph Bernhard Marx lamented the current state of church music in Protestant Germany: In the Protestant places of worship, grand orchestral and choral performances become every day more rare.