Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past (eBook, PDF)

Constructing Historical Legacies
Redaktion: Thym, Jürgen

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Produktbeschreibung

Examines Mendelssohn's relationship to the past, shedding light on the construction of historical legacies that, in some cases, served to assert German cultural supremacy only two decades after the composer's death.

By upbringing, family connections, and education, Felix Mendelssohn was ideally positioned to contribute to the historical legacies of the German people, who in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars discovered that they were a nation with a distinct culture. The number of cultural icons of German nationalism that Mendelssohn "discovered," promoted, or was asked to promote (by way of commissions) in his compositions is striking: Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press, Dürer and Nuremberg, Luther and the Augsburg Confession as the manifesto of Protestantism, Bach and the St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven and his claims to universal brotherhood.
The essays in thisvolume investigate from a variety of perspectives Mendelssohn's relationship to the music of the past, including the significance of Bach's music for the Mendelssohn family, the homages to Bach in Mendelssohn's organ compositions,the influence of Beethoven in the Reformation Symphony, and Mendelssohn's reception and use of Handel's oratorios. Together, the essays shed light on the construction of legacies that, in some cases, served to assert German cultural supremacy only two decades after the composer's death in 1847.

Contributors: Celia Applegate, John Michael Cooper, Hans Davidsson, Wm. A. Little, Peter Mercer-Taylor, Siegwart Reichwald, Glenn Stanley, Russell Stinson, Benedict Taylor, Nicholas Thistlethwaite, Jürgen Thym, R. Larry Todd, Christoph Wolff

Jürgen Thym is professor emeritus of musicology at the Eastman School of Music and editor of Of Poetry and Song: Approaches tothe Nineteenth-Century Lied (University of Rochester Press, 2010).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781580468701
• Artikelnr.: 56163797

Autorenporträt

Jürgen Thym

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Of Statues and Monuments Mendelssohn and the Contrapuntal
Tradition Mendelssohn and the Catholic Tradition: Roman Influences on His
Kirchen-Musik, Op. 23 and Drei Motetten, Op. 39 Mendelssohn and the Legacy
of Beethoven's Ninth: Vocality in the "Reformation" Symphony Mendelssohn
and the Organ Some Observations on Mendelssohn's Bach Recital "He Ought to
Have a Statue" : Mendelssohn, Gauntlett, and the English Organ Reform
Mendelssohn's Sonatas, Op. 65, and the Craighead-Saunders Organ at the
Eastman School of Music: Aspects of Performance Practice and Context The
Bach Tradition among the Mendelssohn Ancestry Music History as Sermon:
Style, Form, and Narrative in Mendelssohn's "Dürer" Cantata (1828)
Mendelssohn's "Authentic" Handel in Context: German Approaches to
Translation and Art and Architectural Restoration in the Early Nineteenth
Century Beyond the Ethical and Aesthetic: On Reconciling Religious Art with
Secular Art-Religion in Mendelssohn's "Lobgesang" Mendelssohn's Religious
Worlds: Currents and Crosscurrents of Protestantism in Nineteenth-Century
Germany and Great Britain List of Contributors Index