Mendelssohn essays
By: R. Larry Todd.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780415978149; 9780415978156
Subjects: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix, -- 1809-1847 -- Criticism and interpretation; Hensel, Fanny Mendelssohn, -- 1805-1847 -- Criticism and interpretation; Music -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.   ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Reception. Mendelssohn the prodigy ; Constructions of Mendelssohn and Britishness; title: Style and influence. Mendelssohn's ossianic manner ; On the visual in Mendelssohn's music ; On Mendelssohn's sacred music, real and imaginary ; Echoes of the St. Matthew passion in the music of Mendelssohn ; The chamber music of Mendelssohn ; Familiar and unfamiliar aspects of Mendelssohn's Octet ; Me voilà perruqué : Mendelssohn's Six preludes and fugues op. 35; title: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel. Fanny Hensel and musical style ; On stylistic affinities in the works of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy ; Issues of stylistic identity in Fanny Hensel's Das Jahr; title: Compositional process. The unfinished Mendelssohn; title: An unfinished piano concerto by Mendelssohn; title: An unfinished symphony by Mendelssohn.