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Mendelssohn Essays

R. Larry Todd
Mendelssohn Essays Book PDF

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135866693

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Mendelssohn Essays by R. Larry Todd Pdf

When R. Larry Todd’s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn’s life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about the composer and his music, his family and his peers, and his complex reception history. Now, as we approach the 2009 bicentenary of Mendelssohn’s birth, the author has chosen and compiled fifteen essays written between 1980 and 2005, including five previously unpublished, that examine several aspects of the composer whom Goethe and Heine likened to a second Mozart. Mendelssohn Essays explores Mendelssohn’s precocity, his musical impressions of British culture, the role of the visual in his music, his compositional response to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and incomplete drafts from his musical estate of three instrumental works. In addition, a group of three essays focuses on the music of Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny Hensel, perhaps the most gifted woman composer of the century, and a significant, complex figure in the formation of the Mendelssohnian style.

The Early Works of Felix Mendelssohn

Gregory John Vitercik
The Early Works of Felix Mendelssohn Book PDF

Author : Gregory John Vitercik
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Sonata form
ISBN : 2881245366

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The Early Works of Felix Mendelssohn by Gregory John Vitercik Pdf

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Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings

Moses Mendelssohn
Moses Mendelssohn Philosophical Writings Book PDF

Author : Moses Mendelssohn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521573831

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Moses Mendelssohn: Philosophical Writings by Moses Mendelssohn Pdf

Mendelssohn's Philosophical Writings, helped propel its author to the forefront of the Berlin Enlightenment.

Mendelssohn

Benedict Taylor
Mendelssohn Book PDF

Author : Benedict Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351558525

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Mendelssohn by Benedict Taylor Pdf

This volume of essays brings together a selection of the most significant and representative writings on Mendelssohn from the last fifty years. Divided into four main subject areas, it makes available twenty-two essays which have transformed scholarly awareness of this crucial and ever-popular nineteenth-century composer and musician; it also includes a specially commissioned introductory chapter which offers a critical overview of the last half century of Mendelssohn scholarship and the direction of future research. The addition of new translations of two influential essays by Carl Dahlhaus, hitherto unavailable in English, adds to the value of this volume which brings back in to circulation important scholarly works and constitutes an indispensable reference work for Mendelssohn scholars.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

John Michael Cooper,Angela R. Mace
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Author : John Michael Cooper,Angela R. Mace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135965594

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy by John Michael Cooper,Angela R. Mace Pdf

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.

Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant

Paul Guyer
Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant Book PDF

Author : Paul Guyer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192590671

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Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant by Paul Guyer Pdf

Reason and Experience in Mendelssohn and Kant provides the first in-depth examination of the lifelong intellectual relationship between two of the greatest figures of the European Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and Moses Mendelssohn (1729-1786). Both were engaged in a common project of striking the right balance between rationalism and empiricism. They sometimes borrowed from one another, often disagreed with one another, and can usefully be compared even when they did not directly interact. Guyer examines a series of comparisons and contrasts: their arguments and conclusions on a range of metaphysical issues, including proofs of the existence of God, immortality, and idealism; their shared interests in aesthetics; and their path-breaking work on the "religion of reason" and the separation of church and state. Setting the work of both philosophers in historical context, Guyer shows that, where Kant sometimes provides deeper insight into the underlying structure of human thought, Mendelssohn is often the deeper student of the variety of human experience. This is evident above all in their treatments of aesthetics and religion: Mendelssohn recognizes more deeply than Kant the emotional impact of art, and while Kant imagines that organized religion will one day be superseded by pure morality, Mendelssohn argued that organized religion in all its varieties seems here to stay, and so toleration for religious variety is an inescapable requirement of human morality. Based on an exhaustive study of a wide range of texts, this study demonstrates the on-going relevance of Kant and Mendelssohn to modern thought.

Mendelssohn Perspectives

Nicole Grimes,Angela Mace
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Author : Nicole Grimes,Angela Mace
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317097396

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Mendelssohn Perspectives by Nicole Grimes,Angela Mace Pdf

If the invective of Nietzsche and Shaw is to be taken as an endorsement of the lasting quality of an artist, then Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes pride of place beside Tennyson and Brahms in the canon of great nineteenth-century artists. Mendelssohn Perspectives presents valuable new insights into Mendelssohn’s music, biography and reception. Critically engaging a wide range of source materials, the volume combines traditional musical-analytical studies with those that draw on other humanistic disciplines to shed new light on the composer’s life, and on his contemporary and posthumous reputations. Together, these essays bring new historical and interpretive dimensions to Mendelssohn studies. The volume offers essays on Mendelssohn's Jewishness, his vast correspondence, his music for the stage, and his relationship with music of the past and future, as well as the compositional process and handling of form in the music of both Mendelssohn and his sister, the composer Fanny Hensel. German literature and aesthetics, gender and race, philosophy and science, and issues of historicism all come to bear on these new perspectives on Mendelssohn.

Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics

Reinier Munk
Moses Mendelssohn s Metaphysics and Aesthetics Book PDF

Author : Reinier Munk
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9400724519

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Moses Mendelssohn's Metaphysics and Aesthetics by Reinier Munk Pdf

This book presents an extended dialogue in essay form between specialists in the work of Moses Mendelssohn, and experts in important trends in related late-seventeenth and eighteenth century thought. The first group of contributors explores themes in Mendelssohn’s metaphysics and aesthetics, presenting both their internal argumentative coherence and their historical context. The second outlines the context of Mendelssohn’s views on specific topics, and describes his contribution to the discussion of them. The essays are organized in four sections. The first pairs two essays on Mendelssohn’s theory of language and writing. The second section offers three essays addressing a number of topics in Mathematics and philosophy in Mendelssohn. A group of eight essays follows, dealing with Metaphysics in a historical context. The fourth section presents five essays discussing Mendelssohn’s Aesthetics in a historical context. Moses Mendelssohn’s Metaphysics and Aesthetics arises from a conference held in Amsterdam in 2009, which gathered numerous authorities to address the central theme. Taken together, these eighteen essays present a sophisticated portrait of Mendelssohn, packed with detail and rich in complexity.

Rethinking Mendelssohn

Benedict Taylor Ph.D.
Rethinking Mendelssohn Book PDF

Author : Benedict Taylor Ph.D.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780190611798

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Rethinking Mendelssohn by Benedict Taylor Ph.D. Pdf

As one of the foremost composers, conductors, and pianists of the nineteenth century, Felix Mendelssohn played a fundamental role in the shaping of modern musical tastes through his contributions to the early music revival and the formation of the Austro-German musical canon. His career allows for a remarkable meeting point for critical engagement with a host of crucial issues in the last two centuries of music history, including the relation between musical meaning and social function, programmatic and absolute music, notions of classicism and Romanticism, modernism and historicism. It also serves as a pertinent case-study of the roles political ideology, racism, and musical ignorance may play in creating and perpetuating a composer's posthumous reception. Fittingly, Rethinking Mendelssohn focuses on critical engagement with the composer's music and aesthetics, and on the interpretation of his works in relation to contemporaneous culture. Building on the renaissance in Mendelssohn scholarship of the last two decades, Rethinking Mendelssohn sets a fresh and exciting tone for research on the composer. Opening new ways of understanding Mendelssohn and setting the future direction of Mendelssohn studies, the contributing scholars pay particular attention to Mendelssohn's contested views on the relationship between art and religion, analysis of Mendelssohn's instrumental music in the wake of recent controversies in Formenlehre, and the burgeoning interest in his previously neglected contribution to the German song.

Mendelssohn Perspectives

Dr Angela Mace,Dr Nicole Grimes
Mendelssohn Perspectives Book PDF

Author : Dr Angela Mace,Dr Nicole Grimes
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781409484141

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Mendelssohn Perspectives by Dr Angela Mace,Dr Nicole Grimes Pdf

If the invective of Nietzsche and Shaw is to be taken as an endorsement of the lasting quality of an artist, then Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes pride of place beside Tennyson and Brahms in the canon of great nineteenth-century artists. Mendelssohn Perspectives presents valuable new insights into Mendelssohn’s music, biography and reception. Critically engaging a wide range of source materials, the volume combines traditional musical-analytical studies with those that draw on other humanistic disciplines to shed new light on the composer’s life, and on his contemporary and posthumous reputations. Together, these essays bring new historical and interpretive dimensions to Mendelssohn studies. The volume offers essays on Mendelssohn's Jewishness, his vast correspondence, his music for the stage, and his relationship with music of the past and future, as well as the compositional process and handling of form in the music of both Mendelssohn and his sister, the composer Fanny Hensel. German literature and aesthetics, gender and race, philosophy and science, and issues of historicism all come to bear on these new perspectives on Mendelssohn.

Moses Mendelssohn

Alexander Altmann
Moses Mendelssohn Book PDF

Author : Alexander Altmann
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 910 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1984-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781909821187

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Moses Mendelssohn by Alexander Altmann Pdf

Professor Altmann quotes widely from personal letters and other contemporary documents in this biographical study of one of the most celebrated figures of the German Enlightenment. A considerable amount of the primary source material is offered in English translation.

Moses Mendelssohn

Shmuel Feiner
Moses Mendelssohn Book PDF

Author : Shmuel Feiner
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300167528

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Moses Mendelssohn by Shmuel Feiner Pdf

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an accessible and fascinating biography of Moses Mendelssohn, the seminal Jewish philosopher "A fascinating portrait of an important Enlightenment figure."—Library Journal The “German Socrates,” Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) was the most influential Jewish thinker of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A Berlin celebrity and a major figure in the Enlightenment, revered by Immanuel Kant, Mendelssohn suffered the indignities common to Jews of his time while formulating the philosophical foundations of a modern Judaism suited for a new age. His most influential books included the groundbreaking Jerusalem and a translation of the Bible into German that paved the way for generations of Jews to master the language of the larger culture. Feiner’s book is the first that offers a full, human portrait of this fascinating man—uncommonly modest, acutely aware of his task as an intellectual pioneer, shrewd, traditionally Jewish, yet thoroughly conversant with the world around him—providing a vivid sense of Mendelssohn’s daily life as well as of his philosophical endeavors. Feiner, a leading scholar of Jewish intellectual history, examines Mendelssohn as father and husband, as a friend (Mendelssohn’s long-standing friendship with the German dramatist Gotthold Ephraim Lessing was seen as a model for Jews and non-Jews worldwide), as a tireless advocate for his people, and as an equally indefatigable spokesman for the paramount importance of intellectual independence.

Moses Mendelssohn and the Enlightenment

Allan Arkush
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Author : Allan Arkush
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 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.

Mendelssohn and Victorian England

ColinTimothy Eatock
Mendelssohn and Victorian England Book PDF

Author : ColinTimothy Eatock
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351558495

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Mendelssohn and Victorian England by ColinTimothy Eatock Pdf

This valuable book considers the reception of the composer, pianist, organist and conductor Felix Mendelssohn in nineteenth-century England, and his influence on English musical culture. Despite the composer's immense popularity in the nation during his lifetime and in the decades following his death, this is the first book to deal exclusively with the subject of Mendelssohn in England. Mendelssohn's highly successful ten trips to Britain, between 1829 and 1847, are documented and discussed in detail, as are his relationships with English musicians and a variety of prominent figures. An introductory chapter describes the musical life of England (especially London) at the time of Mendelssohn's arrival and the last two chapters deal with the composer's posthumous reception, to the end of the Victorian era. Eatock reveals Mendelssohn as a catalyst for the expansion of English musical culture in the nineteenth century. In taking this position, the author challenges much of the extant literature on the subject and provides an engaging story that brings Mendelssohn and his English experiences to life.

Mendelssohn

R. Larry Todd
Mendelssohn Book PDF

Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 52,6 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)