Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past

Contents

• 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