Cooper, John Michael - The Mendelssohns

Since about 1970 there has been a veritable renaissance in scholarship and performances concerning the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel. These essays present the findings of three generations of members of the international community of Mendelssohn/Hensel scholars, and constitute a compendium of cutting-edge research relating to these two important representatives of nineteenth-century musical culture.

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CONTENTS

PrefaceJohn Michael Cooper, Julie D Prandi:
List of Plates
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Musical Examples
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Part I: Sources and Source Problems
1. Ralf Wehner: 'It seeems to have been lost': On Missing and Recovered Mendelssohn Sources
2. Pietro Zappala: Editorial Problems in Mendelssohn's Organ Preludes, Op. 37
3. John Michael Cooper: Mendelssohn's TwoInfelice Arias: Problems of Sources and Musical Identity
Part II: Individual Works
4. Peter Ward Jones: Mendelssohn's First Composition
5. Wolfgang Dinglinger: The Programme of Mendelssohn's 'Reformation' Symphony, Op. 107
6. Julie D. Prandi: Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die erste Walpurgisnacht
7. Thomas Schmidt-Beste: Just how 'Scottish' is the 'Scottish' Symphony? Thoughts on Poetic Content and Form in Mendelssohn's Opus 56
Part III: Repertoires
8. Christoph Hellmundt: 'Indessen wollte ich mich Ihnen gern gefallig beweisen': On Some Occasional Works, with an Unknown Composition by Mendelssohn
9. Monika Hennemann: 'So kann ich es nicht componiren': Mendelssohn, Opera, and the Libretto Problem
10. Douglass Seaton: Mendelssohn's Cycles of Songs
Part IV: Felix and Fanny
11. Hans-Gunter Klein: Similarities and Differences in the Artistic Development of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in a Family Context: Observations on Selected Works from 1820 to 1823 in the Berlin Autograph Volumes
12. R. Larry Todd: On Stylistic Commonalities in the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
13. Camilla Cai: Virtuoso Texture in Fanny Hensel's Piano Music
14. Francoise Tillard: Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel: The Search for Perfection in Opposing Private and Public Works
Part V: Reception History
15. William A. Little: Felix Mendelssohn and his Place in the Organ World of his Time
16. Friedhelm Krummacher: Epigones of an Epigone? Concerning Mendelssohn's String Quartets--and the Consequences
17. Marian Wilson Kimber: The Composer as Other: Gender and Race in the Biography of Felix Mendelssohn
Select Bibliography
Index