Mendelssohn Perspectives
- Author: Mace, Angela
- Editor: Grimes, Nicole
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Contents
- Introduction
- I: Mendelssohn's Jewishness
- 1: Never Perfectly Beautiful: Physiognomy, Jewishness, and Mendelssohn Portraiture
- 2: Mendelssohn's ‘Untergang': Reconsidering the Impact of Wagner’s ‘Judaism in Music’
- 3: ‘Wordless Judaism, Like the Songs of Mendelssohn'? Hanslick, Mendelssohn and Cultural Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna
- 4: Mendelssohn's Conversion to Judaism: An English Perspective
- II: Between Tradition and Innovation
- 5: Norm and Deformation in Mendelssohn's Sonata Forms
- 6: Mendelssohn and Berlioz: Selective Affinities
- 7: Between Tradition and Innovation: Mendelssohn as Music Director and His Performances of Bach in Leipzig 1
- III: Mendelssohn and the Stage
- 8: Converting the Pagans: Mendelssohn, Greek Tragedy, and the Christian Ethos
- 9: The Phantom of Mendelssohn's Opera: Fictional Accounts and Posthumous Propaganda
- IV: Style and Compositional Process
- 10: Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte and the Limits of Musical Expression
- 11: Improvisation, Elaboration, Composition: The Mendelssohns and the Classical Cadenza 1
- 12: Cyclic Form and Musical Memory in Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 12
- V: Contemporary Views and Posthumous Perspectives
- 13: A Friendship in Letters: The Correspondence of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Carl Klingemann
- 14: Mendelssohn as Portrayed in the Goethe–Zelter Correspondence
- 15: Business is War: Mendelssohn and His Italian Publishers
- 16: Beyond the Salon: Mendelssohn's French Audience