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Mendelssohn and His World

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781400831623

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Mendelssohn and His World by R. Larry Todd Pdf

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 Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his contemporaries, the composer's own letters, and early critical reviews of his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.

Mendelssohn

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195179880

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Mendelssohn by R. Larry Todd Pdf

A portrait of the distinguished composer, musician, and artist draws on his correspondence, diaries, and creative works to analyze his most distinctive achievements as well as his lesser-known pieces, exploring his religious heritage, role as a Jewish performer, and complex relationship with his sister. (Biography)

The Life and Times of Felix Mendelssohn

Author : Susan Zannos
Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2004-03
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781612289168

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The Life and Times of Felix Mendelssohn by Susan Zannos Pdf

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.

Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Author : Wilhelm Adolf Lampadius
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1342971450

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Life of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by Wilhelm Adolf Lampadius Pdf

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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles

Author : Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547016236

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Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Pdf

Letters of Felix Mendelssohn to Ignaz and Charlotte Moscheles is a set of letters between renowned composers of the 19th century and provide an inside view for students of musicology and fans.

3 Etudes by Felix Mendelssohn for Solo Piano (1838) Op.104b

Author : Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781473363274

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3 Etudes by Felix Mendelssohn for Solo Piano (1838) Op.104b by Felix Mendelssohn Pdf

This volume presents the complete score for Felix Mendelssohn's 1838 piano sonata, “Drei Etudes”. Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847) was a German pianist, organist, composer, and conductor during the Romantic period. He enjoyed wide acclaim in Germany and much of Europe, but was especially successful in Britain as a soloist and conductor. Mendelssohn composed many symphonies, oratorios, and concerti, his best-known work being his “Overture” and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the “Italian Symphony”, the “Scottish Symphony”, and the overture “The Hebrides”. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of classical music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.

Etude by Felix Mendelssohn for Solo Piano (1836) Wo01

Author : Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781528780391

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Etude by Felix Mendelssohn for Solo Piano (1836) Wo01 by Felix Mendelssohn Pdf

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847) was a German pianist, organist, composer, and conductor during the Romantic period. He enjoyed wide acclaim in Germany and much of Europe, but was especially successful in Britain as a soloist and conductor. Mendelssohn composed many symphonies, oratorios, and concerti, his best-known work being his “Overture” and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the “Italian Symphony”, the “Scottish Symphony”, and the overture “The Hebrides”. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of classical music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.

Schumann and His World

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781400863860

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Schumann and His World by R. Larry Todd Pdf

We know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental illness in 1856. Drawing on recent pathbreaking research, this collection offers new perspectives on this seminal nineteenth-century figure. In Part I, Leon Botstein and Michael P. Steinberg assess Schumann's efforts to place music at the center of German culture, in public and private sectors. Bernhard R. Appel offers a probing source study of one of Schumann's most personal works, the Album für die Jugend, Op. 68, while John Daverio considers the generic identity of Das Paradies und die Peri, and Jon W. Finson reexamines the first version of the Eichendorff Liederkreis. Gerd Nauhaus investigates Schumann's approach to the symphonic finale, and R. Larry Todd considers the intractable issue of quotations and allusions in Schumann's music. Part II presents letters and memoirs, including unpublished correspondence between Clara Schumann and Felix and Paul Mendelssohn-Bartholdy. In Part III, conflicting critical views of Schumann are juxtaposed. Some of these sources are translated into English for the first time. Originally published in 1994. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Mendelssohn is on the Roof

Author : Jiří Weil
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0810116863

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Mendelssohn is on the Roof by Jiří Weil Pdf

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.

Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment

Author : Allan Arkush
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791495261

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Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment by Allan Arkush Pdf

Moses Mendelssohn, the author of numerous works on natural theology and ethics, was also the first modern philosopher of Judaism. This book places Mendelssohn's thought within the context of the Leibnizian-Wolffian school, the writings of Kant and Lessing and other major figures of the Enlightenment, and within the age-old tradition of Jewish rationalism. More than any previous treatment of this subject, it questions the extent to which Mendelssohn truly succeeded in reconciling his allegiance to the philosophy of the Enlightenment with his adherence to Judaism.

Fanny Hensel

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199884520

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Fanny Hensel by R. Larry Todd Pdf

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.

Perpetuum Mobile in C Major by Felix Mendelssohn for Solo Piano (1873) Op.119

Author : Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781528780506

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Perpetuum Mobile in C Major by Felix Mendelssohn for Solo Piano (1873) Op.119 by Felix Mendelssohn Pdf

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847) was a German pianist, organist, composer, and conductor during the Romantic period. He enjoyed wide acclaim in Germany and much of Europe, but was especially successful in Britain as a soloist and conductor. Mendelssohn composed many symphonies, oratorios, and concerti, his best-known work being his “Overture” and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the “Italian Symphony”, the “Scottish Symphony”, and the overture “The Hebrides”. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of classical music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.

Felix Mendelssohn

Author : Helen Martens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Composers
ISBN : 159977013X

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Felix Mendelssohn by Helen Martens Pdf

Much of the world regards him as the most gifted musical genius of all time, but few people know Felix Mendelssohn the son, brother, husband, father, adversary, critic and friend. In Felix Mendelssohn: Out of the Depths of His Hear, scholar Helen Martens casts light on these aspects of a life that encompassed the greatest joys and deepest disappointments. Through thousands of solidly researched autograph letters, archival materials, and articles from nineteenth-century journals and newspapers of Mendelssohn's musical life and his remarkable family, readers will discover: What motivated him in his personal life and in his art Where he found fulfillment and what sustained him in difficult times What God and the Bible meant to him What he thought of the process of composing, and which of his compositions satisfied him most and least Why he completed no opera after the age of eighteen How he met the beautiful, aristocratic pianist who moved in and out of his life

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1993-09-24
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521407648

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Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures by R. Larry Todd Pdf

The concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty, have ranked amongst the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works which secured for Mendelssohn no small measure of his fame. After placing the overtures in the context of Mendelssohn's astonishing compositional development during the 1820s, the volume disentangles the complex history of their creation and considers in turn their style and formal structure, their contents as programme music, aspects of their orchestration and their reception and influence. All this is supported by a wealth of primary documents, including Mendelssohn's correspondence, memoirs of his friends, and nineteenth-century critical reviews.

Prelude and Fugue in E Minor by Felix Mendelssohn for Solo Piano (1841) Op.106

Author : Felix Mendelssohn
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781528780612

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Prelude and Fugue in E Minor by Felix Mendelssohn for Solo Piano (1841) Op.106 by Felix Mendelssohn Pdf

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809 – 1847) was a German pianist, organist, composer, and conductor during the Romantic period. He enjoyed wide acclaim in Germany and much of Europe, but was especially successful in Britain as a soloist and conductor. Mendelssohn composed many symphonies, oratorios, and concerti, his best-known work being his “Overture” and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the “Italian Symphony”, the “Scottish Symphony”, and the overture “The Hebrides”. Classic Music Collection constitutes an extensive library of the most well-known and universally-enjoyed works of classical music ever composed, reproduced from authoritative editions for the enjoyment of musicians and music students the world over.