Mendelssohn
A Life in Music
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 14 April 2005
- ISBN 9780195179880
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages736 pages
- Size 234x156x48 mm
- Weight 993 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20pp halftones, & numerous music examples 0
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Short description:
This is the long-awaited, definitive biography of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847). While seen as a prodigy and genius, Mendelssohn is most famous as the composer of "The Wedding March" and other "lightweight" music. Noted musicologist R. Larry Todd rights that record, re-examines his major compositions, explores the anti-Semitic reception to his work by Wagner and others, and looks at the related compositions of Mendelssohn's sister, Fanny Hensel.
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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works (termed by one critic "moonlight with sugar water"), Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works.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.
A highly readable and authoritative account of a brief but remarkably creative life, and an important contribution to Mendelssohn studies. S
Table of Contents:
Geneological Tree of Itzig and Mendelssohn Families XV
Map: Principal Sites of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Travels XVIII
Preface XIX
Prologue: Porcelain Monkeys and Family Identities
Part I: Precocious Deeds
In Nebel und Nacht:Hamburg to Berlin (1809-1819)
Apprenticed Prodigy (1820-1821)
The Second Mozart (1821-1822)
The Apprentice to Journeyman (1823-1824)
The Prodigy's Voice (1825-1826)
In the Public Eye (1827-1829)
Part II: The Road to Damascus
Amateur Gentleman (1829)
Wanderlust (1830-1832)
Dusseldorf Beginnings (1832-1835)
The Apostle's Voice (1835-1837)
Part III: Elijah's Chariot
Musical Biedermeier (1837-1839)
Leipzig vs. Berlin (1840-1841)
From Kapellmeister to Generalmusikdirektor (1841-1842)
Portrait of a Prussian Musician (1842-1843)
The Noon of Fame: Years of Triumph (1844-1846)
The Prophet's Voice: Elijah's Chariot (1846-1847)
