Mendelssohn: A Life in MusicOxford University Press, 2003 M10 23 - 736 páginas An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today for several staples of the concert hall and for such popular music as "The Wedding March" and "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, R. Larry Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant, based upon painstaking research in autograph manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and paintings. Rejecting the view of the composer as a craftsman of felicitous but sentimental, saccharine works (termed by one critic "moonlight with sugar water"), Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works. Here are engaging analyses of Mendelssohn's distinctive masterpieces--the zestful Octet, puckish Midsummer Night's Dream, haunting Hebrides Overtures, and elegiac Violin Concerto in E minor. Todd describes how the composer excelled in understatement and nuance, in subtle, coloristic orchestrations that lent his scores an undeniable freshness and vividness. He also explores Mendelssohn's changing awareness of his religious heritage, Wagner's virulent anti-Semitic attack on Mendelssohn's music, the composer's complex relationship with his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and prolific composer, his avocation as a painter and draughtsman, and his remarkable, polylingual correspondence with the cultural elite of his time. Mendelssohn: A Life offers a masterful blend of biography and musical analysis. Readers will discover many new facets of the familiar but misunderstood composer and gain new perspectives on one of the most formidable musical geniuses of all time. |
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... Frankfurt where it was to have had its premiere. Meanwhile, the emigré Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold had arrived in Hollywood in 1934 to work on the score for Max Reinhardt's film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) ...
... Frankfurt where it was to have had its premiere. Meanwhile, the emigré Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold had arrived in Hollywood in 1934 to work on the score for Max Reinhardt's film version of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) ...
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... but the parents remained Jews until October 1822, when they secretly embraced Christianity in Frankfurt. At the end of 1821, Abraham dissolved his ties to the banking firm, porcelain monkeys and family identities N 15.
... but the parents remained Jews until October 1822, when they secretly embraced Christianity in Frankfurt. At the end of 1821, Abraham dissolved his ties to the banking firm, porcelain monkeys and family identities N 15.
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... Frankfurt and lived with Philipp, who became the director of the art institute there. In 1830, after a separation of twenty-six years, she was finally reunited with her sister Henriette and reconciled with her brothers Abraham and ...
... Frankfurt and lived with Philipp, who became the director of the art institute there. In 1830, after a separation of twenty-six years, she was finally reunited with her sister Henriette and reconciled with her brothers Abraham and ...
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... Frankfurt to oversee the payments, which began on December 1, 1815.36 At the end of October, Joseph took up residence with his family in Paris37 and established a bureau to manage the fund transfers. On March 21, 1816, Abraham and Lea ...
... Frankfurt to oversee the payments, which began on December 1, 1815.36 At the end of October, Joseph took up residence with his family in Paris37 and established a bureau to manage the fund transfers. On March 21, 1816, Abraham and Lea ...
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... Frankfurt, where they stopped midroute during their 1816 journey. Fanny and Felix met their aunt Dorothea Schlegel, who marveled at the “energy, skill, precision and expression” with which her niece and nephew performed her favorite ...
... Frankfurt, where they stopped midroute during their 1816 journey. Fanny and Felix met their aunt Dorothea Schlegel, who marveled at the “energy, skill, precision and expression” with which her niece and nephew performed her favorite ...
Contenido
The Road to Damascus | 199 |
Elijahs Chariot | 345 |
Abbreviations | 571 |
Notes | 573 |
Bibliography | 629 |
Index of Mendelssohns Works | 645 |
General Index | 653 |
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