1st Edition

Mendelssohn Essays

By R. Larry Todd Copyright 2008
358 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

1. Constructions of Mendelssohn and Britishness  2. Mendelssohn Motifs   Mendelssohn’s Music  3. Mendelssohn’s Ossianic Manner   4. On the Visual in Mendelssohn’s Music   5. On Mendelssohn’s Sacred Music, Real and Imaginary   6. On Mendelssohn’s Operatic Destiny: Die Lorelei Reconsidered   7. The Chamber Music of Mendelssohn   8. New Light on Mendelssohn’s Freie Phantasie (1840)   9. Me voilà perruqué: Mendelssohn’s Six Preludes and Fugues Op. 35   Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel  10. Becoming a Composer: Fanny Hensel and Musical Style  11. On Stylistic Affinities between the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy  12. Issues of Stylistic Identity in Fanny Hensel’s Das Jahr  Compositional Process  13. The Unfinished Mendelssohn   14. An Unfinished Piano Concerto by Mendelssohn  15. An Unfinished Symphony by Mendelssohn

 

Biography

R. Larry Todd is Professor of Musicology at Duke University. Hailed as "The dean of Mendelssohn scholars in the United States" by the New York Times, he has lectured and published widely on 19th century Romantic music. He is editor of the series Routledge Musical Genres.