The Mendelssohns Their Music in History [Hardcover]

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

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. 'It seems to have been lost': On Missing and Recovered Mendelssohn Sources,Ralf Wehner
2. Editorial Problems in Mendelssohn's Organ Preludes, Op. 37,Pietro Zappal?
3. Mendelssohn's TwoInfeliceArias: Problems of Sources and Musical Identity,John Michael Cooper
Part II: Individual Works
4. Mendelssohn's First Composition,Peter Ward Jones
5. The Programme of Mendelssohn's 'Reformation' Symphony, Op. 107,Wolfgang Dinglinger
6. Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe,Die erste Walpurgisnacht,Julie D. Prandi
7. Just how 'Scottish' is the 'Scottish' Symphony? Thoughts on Poetic Content and Form in Mendelssohn's Opus 56,Thomas Schmidt-Beste
Part III: Repertoires
8. 'Indessen wollte ich mich Ihnen gern gef?llig beweisen': On Some Occasional Works, with an Unknown Composition by Mendelssohn,Christoph Hellmundt
9. 'So kann ich es nicht componiren': Mendelssohn, Opera, and the Libretto Problem,Monika Hennemann
10. Mendelssohn's Cycles of Songs,Douglass Seaton
Part IV: Felix and Fanny
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