Mendelssohn Perspectives

Contents

• Contents: Introduction, Nicole Grimes and Angela R. Mace
• Part I Mendelssohn's Jewishness: Never perfectly beautiful: physiognomy, Jewishness, and Mendelssohn portraiture, Marian Wilson Kimber
• Mendelssohn's 'untergang': reconsidering the impact of Wagner's 'Judaism in Music', SinA(c)ad Dempsey-Garratt
• 'Wordless Judaism, like the songs of Mendelssohn'? Hanslick, Mendelssohn and cultural politics in late 19th-century Vienna, Nicole Grimes
• Mendelssohn's conversion to Judaism: an English perspective, Colin Eatock. Part II Between Tradition and Innovation: Norm and deformation in Mendelssohn's sonata forms, Paul Wingfield and Julian Horton
• Mendelssohn and Berlioz: selective affinities, John Michael Cooper
• Between tradition and innovation: Mendelssohn as music director and his performances of Bach in Leipzig, Anselm Hartinger. Part III Mendelssohn and the Stage: Converting the pagans: Mendelssohn, Greek tragedy, and the Christian ethos, Jason Geary
• The phantom of Mendelssohn's opera: fictional accounts and posthumous propaganda, Monika Hennemann. Part IV Style and Compositional Process: Mendelssohn's Liede ohne Worte and the limits of musical expression, R. Larry Todd
• Improvisation, elaboration, composition: the Mendelssohns and the classical cadenza, Angela R. Mace
• Cyclic form and musical memory in Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 12, Benedict Taylor. Part V Contemporary Views and Posthumous Perspectives: A friendship in letters: the correspondence of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Carl Klingemann
• Mendelssohn as portrayed in the Goethe-Zelter correspondence, Lorraine Byrne Bodley
• Business is war: Mendelssohn and his Italian publishers, Pietro ZappalA
• Beyond the salon: Mendelssohna (TM)s French audience, CA(c)cile Reynaud
• Bibliography
• Indexes.