Peter Mercer-Taylor (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Mendelssohn

Herausgeber: Mercer-Taylor, Peter

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Produktbeschreibung

Authored by leading scholars in the field, this collection of fourteen essays surveys the life, work, and posthumous reception of the nineteenth-century German-Jewish composer. Sections cover aspects of biography as well as Felix Mendelssohn's expansive and multi-faceted musical output. Two closing essays confront the turbulent course of his posthumous reception and the challenges his music continues to pose for modern performers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 332
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 575g
• ISBN-13: 9780521533423
• ISBN-10: 0521533422
• Artikelnr.: 21818954

Autorenporträt

Peter Mercer-Taylor is Associate Professor of Musicology at the University of Minnesota School of Music. He is the author of The Life of Mendelssohn (Cambridge, 2000) and has published in a number of journals including The Journal of Musicology and Popular Music and Society.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Mendelssohn as border-dweller Peter Mercer-Taylor; Part I.
Issues in Biography: 1. Mendelssohn and the institution(s) of German art
music Peter Mercer-Taylor; 2. Mendelssohn and Judaism Michael P. Steinberg;
3. Felix and Fanny: gender, biography, and history Marian Wilson-Kimber;
Part II. Situating the Compositions: 4. Mendelssohn and the rise of musical
historicism James Garratt; 5. Mendelssohn as progressive Greg Vitercik;
Part III. Profiles of the Music: 6. Symphony and Overture Douglass Seaton;
7. The works for solo instrument(s) and orchestra Steve Lindeman; 8.
Mendelssohn's chamber music Thomas Schmidt-Beste; 9. The music for keyboard
Glenn Stanley; 10. On Mendelssohn's sacred music, real and imaginary R.
Larry Todd; 11. Mendelssohn's songs Susan Youens; 12. Felix Mendelssohn's
dramatic compositions: from Liederspiel to Lorelei Monika Hennemann; Part
IV. Reception and Performance: 13. Mendelssohn received John Michael
Cooper; 14. Wagner as Mendelssohn: reversing habits and reclaiming meaning
in the performance of Mendelssohn's music for orchestra and chorus Leon
Botstein.