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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
Jürgen Thym
