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Book SynopsisThis volume of ten essays presents the most recent trends in Mendelssohn research, covering three broad categories - reception history, historical and critical essays and case studies of particular compositions.
Table of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. A winter of discontent: Mendelssohn and the Berliner Domchor David Brodbeck; 2. In mutual reflection: historical, biographical, and structural aspects of Mendelssohn's Variations sérieuses Christa Jost; 3. Felix culpa: Goethe and the image of Mendelssohn Lawrence Kramer; 4. Composition as accommodation? On Mendelssohn's music in relation to England Friedhelm Krummacher; 5. Mendelssohn and Liszt Wm. A. Little; 6. 1848, anti-Semitism, and the Mendelssohn reception Donald Mintz; 7. Marxian programmatic music: a stage in Mendelssohn's musical development Judith Silber Ballan; 8. Me voilà perruqué: Mendelssohn's Six Preludes and Fugues op. 35 reconsidered R. Larry Todd; 9. Mendelssohn's letters to Eduard Devrient: filling in some gaps J. Rigbie Turner; 10. Mendelssohn and his English publishers Peter Ward Jones; Index.
