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1st Edition

Mendelssohn Perspectives

Edited By Nicole Grimes, Angela Mace Copyright 2012
392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge

392 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more
Introduction; I: Mendelssohn's Jewishness; 1: Never Perfectly Beautiful: Physiognomy, Jewishness, and Mendelssohn Portraiture; 2: Mendelssohn's ‘Untergang': Reconsidering the Impact of Wagner’s ‘Judaism in Music’; 3: ‘Wordless Judaism, Like the Songs of Mendelssohn'? Hanslick, Mendelssohn and Cultural Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna; 4: Mendelssohn's Conversion to Judaism: An English Perspective; II: Between Tradition and Innovation; 5: Norm and Deformation in Mendelssohn's Sonata Forms; 6: Mendelssohn and Berlioz: Selective Affinities; 7: Between Tradition and Innovation: Mendelssohn as Music Director and His Performances of Bach in Leipzig 1; III: Mendelssohn and the Stage; 8: Converting the Pagans: Mendelssohn, Greek Tragedy, and the Christian Ethos; 9: The Phantom of Mendelssohn's Opera: Fictional Accounts and Posthumous Propaganda; IV: Style and Compositional Process; 10: Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte and the Limits of Musical Expression; 11: Improvisation, Elaboration, Composition: The Mendelssohns and the Classical Cadenza 1; 12: Cyclic Form and Musical Memory in Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 12; V: Contemporary Views and Posthumous Perspectives; 13: A Friendship in Letters: The Correspondence of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Carl Klingemann; 14: Mendelssohn as Portrayed in the Goethe–Zelter Correspondence; 15: Business is War: Mendelssohn and His Italian Publishers; 16: Beyond the Salon: Mendelssohn's French Audience

Biography

Nicole Grimes is a Marie Curie Fellow (2011-14) with joint affiliation at the University of California, Irvine and University College Dublin. She was awarded a PhD at Trinity College Dublin in 2008, for her dissertation on Johannes Brahms, and she was a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2007-2008. Her publications include articles and reviews in several journals, and she is co-editor of a forthcoming volume of essays on Eduard Hanslick.

Angela R. Mace is a PhD candidate in musicology at Duke University (MA musicology, 2008), where she is writing her dissertation on the Mendelssohns. Mace was a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) fellow at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 2010-11. She received her BMus in piano performance from Vanderbilt University in 2006. Mace revised and enlarged J. Michael Cooper’s Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide (New York: Routledge, 2011).

'This book continues the trend of exceptional Mendelssohn scholarship in form of collections of essays. ... This book will be on the bookshelf of most nineteenth-century scholars, but its partially interdisciplinary content also offers important ideas for scholars outside the discipline.' German Studies Review
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