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Contents
- PrefaceJohn Michael Cooper, Julie D Prandi:
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Musical Examples
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Part I: Sources and Source Problems
- 1. Ralf Wehner: 'It seeems to have been lost': On Missing and Recovered Mendelssohn Sources
- 2. Pietro Zappala: Editorial Problems in Mendelssohn's Organ Preludes, Op. 37
- 3. John Michael Cooper: Mendelssohn's TwoInfelice Arias: Problems of Sources and Musical Identity
- Part II: Individual Works
- 4. Peter Ward Jones: Mendelssohn's First Composition
- 5. Wolfgang Dinglinger: The Programme of Mendelssohn's 'Reformation' Symphony, Op. 107
- 6. Julie D. Prandi: Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die erste Walpurgisnacht
- 7. Thomas Schmidt-Beste: Just how 'Scottish' is the 'Scottish' Symphony? Thoughts on Poetic Content and Form in Mendelssohn's Opus 56
- Part III: Repertoires
- 8. Christoph Hellmundt: 'Indessen wollte ich mich Ihnen gern gefallig beweisen': On Some Occasional Works, with an Unknown Composition by Mendelssohn
- 9. Monika Hennemann: 'So kann ich es nicht componiren': Mendelssohn, Opera, and the Libretto Problem
- 10. Douglass Seaton: Mendelssohn's Cycles of Songs
- Part IV: Felix and Fanny
- 11. Hans-Gunter Klein: Similarities and Differences in the Artistic Development of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in a Family Context: Observations on Selected Works from 1820 to 1823 in the Berlin Autograph Volumes
- 12. R. Larry Todd: On Stylistic Commonalities in the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
- 13. Camilla Cai: Virtuoso Texture in Fanny Hensel's Piano Music
- 14. Francoise Tillard: Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel: The Search for Perfection in Opposing Private and Public Works
- Part V: Reception History
- 15. William A. Little: Felix Mendelssohn and his Place in the Organ World of his Time
- 16. Friedhelm Krummacher: Epigones of an Epigone? Concerning Mendelssohn's String Quartets--and the Consequences
- 17. Marian Wilson Kimber: The Composer as Other: Gender and Race in the Biography of Felix Mendelssohn
- Select Bibliography
- Index