Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past
Constructing Historical Legacies
- Editor: Thym, Jurgen
[The chapters] illuminate and expand ideas of Mendelssohn's place as a composer, performer, and ultimately caretaker of musical history. [Davidsson's chapter,] a substantial look at Opus 65... — More…
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$164.50Contents
- 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 "Durer" 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