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Mendelssohn Perspectives

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If the invective of Nietzsche and Shaw is to be taken as an endorsement of the lasting quality of an artist, then Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy takes pride of place beside Tennyson and Brahms in the canon of great nineteenth-century artists. Mendelssohn Perspectives presents valuable new insights into Mendelssohn’s music, biography and reception. Critically engaging a wide range of source materials, the volume combines traditional musical-analytical studies with those that draw on other humanistic disciplines to shed new light on the composer’s life, and on his contemporary and posthumous reputations. Together, these essays bring new historical and interpretive dimensions to Mendelssohn studies. The volume offers essays on Mendelssohn's Jewishness, his vast correspondence, his music for the stage, and his relationship with music of the past and future, as well as the compositional process and handling of form in the music of both Mendelssohn and his sister, the composer Fanny Hensel. German literature and aesthetics, gender and race, philosophy and science, and issues of historicism all come to bear on these new perspectives on Mendelssohn.

Author Biography:

Nicole Grimes is a Marie Curie Fellow (2011-14) with joint affiliation at the University of California, Irvine and University College Dublin. She was awarded a PhD at Trinity College Dublin in 2008, for her dissertation on Johannes Brahms, and she was a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) fellow at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, 2007-2008. Her publications include articles and reviews in several journals, and she is co-editor of a forthcoming volume of essays on Eduard Hanslick. Angela R. Mace is a PhD candidate in musicology at Duke University (MA musicology, 2008), where she is writing her dissertation on the Mendelssohns. Mace was a Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst (DAAD) fellow at the Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, 2010-11. She received her BMus in piano performance from Vanderbilt University in 2006. Mace revised and enlarged J. Michael Cooper's Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide (New York: Routledge, 2011). Nicole Grimes, Angela R. Mace, Marian Wilson Kimber, Sinead Dempsey-Garratt, Colin Eatock, Paul Wingfield, Julian Horton, John Michael Cooper, Anselm Hartinger, Jason Geary, Monika Hennemann, R. Larry Todd, Benedict Taylor, Regina Back, Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Pietro Zappala, Cecile Reynaud.
Release date NZ
October 28th, 2012
Audiences
  • Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Edited by Angela Mace
  • Edited by Nicole Grimes
Pages
392
Dimensions
156x234x22
ISBN-13
9781409428251
Product ID
19440620

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