Inhoud
- Preface, John Michael Cooper, Julie D Prandi
- List of Plates
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Musical Examples
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Part I: Sources and Source Problems
- 1.:'It seeems to have been lost': On Missing and Recovered Mendelssohn Sources, Ralf Wehner
- 2.:Editorial Problems in Mendelssohn's Organ Preludes, Op. 37, Pietro Zappalà
- 3.:Mendelssohn's TwoInfelice Arias: Problems of Sources and Musical Identity, John Michael Cooper
- Part II: Individual Works
- 4.:Mendelssohn's First Composition, Peter Ward Jones
- 5.:The Programme of Mendelssohn's 'Reformation' Symphony, Op. 107, Wolfgang Dinglinger
- 6.:Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Julie D. Prandi
- 7.:Just how 'Scottish' is the 'Scottish' Symphony? Thoughts on Poetic Content and Form in Mendelssohn's Opus 56, Thomas Schmidt-Beste
- Part III: Repertoires
- 8.:'Indessen wollte ich mich Ihnen gern gefällig beweisen': On Some Occasional Works, with an Unknown Composition by Mendelssohn, Christoph Hellmundt
- 9.:'So kann ich es nicht componiren': Mendelssohn, Opera, and the Libretto Problem, Monika Hennemann
- 10.:Mendelssohn's Cycles of Songs, Douglass Seaton
- Part IV: Felix and Fanny
- 11.:Similarities and Differences in the Artistic Development of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in a Family Context: Observations on Selected Works from 1820 to 1823 in the Berlin Autograph Volumes, Hans-Günter Klein
- 12.:On Stylistic Commonalities in the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, R. Larry Todd
- 13.:Virtuoso Texture in Fanny Hensel's Piano Music, Camilla Cai
- 14.:Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel: The Search for Perfection in Opposing Private and Public Works, Françoise Tillard
- Part V: Reception History
- 15.:Felix Mendelssohn and his Place in the Organ World of his Time, William A. Little
- 16.:Epigones of an Epigone? Concerning Mendelssohn's String Quartets—and the Consequences, Friedhelm Krummacher
- 17.:The Composer as Other: Gender and Race in the Biography of Felix Mendelssohn, Marian Wilson Kimber
- Select Bibliography
- Index