The Cambridge companion to Mendelssohn / / edited by Peter Mercer-Taylor [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xv, 315 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 780/.92; B
• Persona (resp. second.): Mercer-TaylorPeter Jameson
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-300) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Mendelssohn as border-dweller / Peter Mercer-Taylor -- Mendelssohn and the institution(s) of German art music / Peter Mercer-Taylor -- Mendelssohn and Judaism / Michael P. Steinberg -- Felix and Fanny : gender, biography, and history / Marian Wilson Kimber -- Mendelssohn and the rise of musical historicism / James Garratt -- Mendelssohn as progressive / Greg Vitercik -- Symphony and overture / Douglass Seaton -- The works for solo instrument(s) and orchestra / Steve Lindeman -- Mendelssohn's chamber music / Thomas Schmidt-Beste -- The music for keyboard / Glenn Stanley -- On Mendelssohn's sacred music, real and imaginary / R. Larry Todd -- Mendelssohn's songs / Susan Youens -- Felix Mendelssohn's dramatic compositions : from Liederspiel to Lorelei / Monika Hennemann -- Mendelssohn received / John Michael Cooper -- Wagner as Mendelssohn : reversing habits and reclaiming meaning in the performance of Mendelssohn's music for orchestra and chorus / Leon Botstein.
• Sommario/riassunto: The Companion to Mendelssohn, is written by leading scholars in the field. In fourteen chapters they explore the life, work, and reception of a composer-performer once thought uniquely untroubled in life and art alike, but who is now broadly understood as one of the nineteenth century's most deeply problematic musical figures. The first section of the volume considers issues of biography, with chapters dedicated to Mendelssohn's role in the emergence of Europe's modern musical institutions, to the persistent tensions of his German-Jewish identity, and to his close but enigmatic relationship with his gifted older sister, Fanny. The following nine essays survey Mendelssohn's expansive and multi-faceted musical output, marked as it was by successes in almost every contemporary musical genre outside of opera. The volume's two closing essays confront, in turn, the turbulent course of Mendelssohn's posthumous reception and some of the challenges his music continues to pose for modern performers.
• Titolo autorizzato: The Cambridge companion to Mendelssohn
• ISBN: 1-107-48123-6; 1-107-48598-3; 1-139-00102-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996210322003316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Cambridge companions to music.