Ulteriori informazioni
Informationen zum Autor 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 . Klappentext In 2003! R. Larry Todd's biography! Mendelssohn: A Life in Music! was published to near universal acclaim. It was immediately hailed as the definitive biography of this important composer. In researching Mendelssohn's life over the last two and a half decades! Todd uncovered much new information about the composer! his family! and his peers. Not all of this material would fit within the confines of a critical biography! so he has presented these findings in academic papers and lectures which themselves have been eagerly followed by students of 19th century music. Now! Todd has gathered these essays-many previously unpublished or enlarged and revised from their original publication-in what is sure to be a standard volume in Mendelssohn studies. Mendelssohn Essays will be eagerly read by all scholars and students of Mendelssohn and 19th century Romantic music. Zusammenfassung Explores Mendelssohn's precocity, his musical impressions of British culture, the role of the visual in his music, his compositional response to Bach's St Matthew Passion, and incomplete drafts from his musical estate of three instrumental works. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
