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Book SynopsisExploring many aspects of Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, this work discusses practical issues of music making such as: performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques.
Trade ReviewThis book does a superb job of explaining the 19th-century sound environment of Felix Mendelssohn and his audiences. . . . Essential.July 2009
* Choice *
Mendelssohn in Performance . . . should be on the shelf of every performer, scholar and devotee of Mendelssohn's music. July 2010, Vol. 7.1
* Nineteenth Century Music Review *
[T]his book has something for everyone interested in Felix Mendelssohn: history, culture, reception, orchestras and instruments, editions and texts, Mendelssohn's sense of historicism, his performances of other composers, performances of his music in his time and later, and even modern films that use his music.14.1 2009
* Performance Practice Review *
[Reichwald] has produced an exceptionally valuable, eminently useful, and very readable book. Any performer wishing to execute an historically informed performance of Mendelssohn's music—or of any other early-nineteenth-century Austro-German composer for that matter—would be well advised to study it thoroughly.29.1 2010
* Journal of Musicological Research *
Table of ContentsContents
Foreword Christopher Hogwood
1. Mendelssohn's Audience Douglass Seaton
2. Mendelssohn and the Piano Kenneth Hamilton
3. Mendelssohn and the Organ Peter Ward Jones
4. The Performance of Mendelssohn's Chamber and Solo Music for Violin Clive Brown
5. Mendelssohn and the Orchestra David Milsom
6. Mendelssohn as Composer/Conductor: Early Performances of Paulus Siegwart Reichwald
7. From Drawing Room to Theater: Performance Traditions of Mendelssohn's Stage Works Monika Hennemann
8. Mendelssohn and the Performance of Handel's Vocal Works Ralf Wehner
9. From Notation to Edition to Performance: Issues in Interpretation John Michael Cooper
10. Mendelssohn's Tempo Indications Siegwart Reichwald
11. "For You See I Am the Eternal Objector": On Performing Mendelssohn's Music in Translation John Michael Cooper
List of Contributors
Index
