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works (termed by one critic "moonlight with sugar water"), Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works.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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... chorale harmonizations. Kirnberger's imposing treatise, The Art of Pure Composition (Die Kunst des reinen Satzes, 1771–1779), stood as the last meticulous examination of figured bass. Exactly how far Moses pursued his studies with ...
... chorale harmonizations. Kirnberger's imposing treatise, The Art of Pure Composition (Die Kunst des reinen Satzes, 1771–1779), stood as the last meticulous examination of figured bass. Exactly how far Moses pursued his studies with ...
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... autobiography describes Fasch's method of instruction, of interest because Zelter later followed a similar model in tutoring Felix and Fanny: For a long while I wrote four-part chorales before turning 38 n p r eco cious deeds.
... autobiography describes Fasch's method of instruction, of interest because Zelter later followed a similar model in tutoring Felix and Fanny: For a long while I wrote four-part chorales before turning 38 n p r eco cious deeds.
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... chorale to counterpoint and canon, and the treatment of four-part chorale writing as the norm are all features of Kirnberger's Kunst des reinen Satzes and reflect his own study with J. S. Bach. Consigned today to the obscure annals of ...
... chorale to counterpoint and canon, and the treatment of four-part chorale writing as the norm are all features of Kirnberger's Kunst des reinen Satzes and reflect his own study with J. S. Bach. Consigned today to the obscure annals of ...
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... chorale Wer nurden lieben Gottläßt walten, as if the Harper invokes divine providence; indeed J. S. Bach's harmonization of the chorale, which Zelter would have known, anticipates the opening of the song (see ex. 1.1b). This striking ...
... chorale Wer nurden lieben Gottläßt walten, as if the Harper invokes divine providence; indeed J. S. Bach's harmonization of the chorale, which Zelter would have known, anticipates the opening of the song (see ex. 1.1b). This striking ...
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... chorale and Marpurg's Abhandlung von der Fuge (1754) for counterpoint. Essentially, Zelter served as a musical hyphen to connect Felix to eighteenth-century German musical culture, epitomized by J. S. Bach and expounded in the music ...
... chorale and Marpurg's Abhandlung von der Fuge (1754) for counterpoint. Essentially, Zelter served as a musical hyphen to connect Felix to eighteenth-century German musical culture, epitomized by J. S. Bach and expounded in the music ...
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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