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  1. Felix Mendelssohn : his life, his family, his music

    Kupferberg, Herbert
    New York : C. Scribner's Sons, [1972]

    A biography of the German composer of "Midsummer Night's Dream" with emphasis on his happy family life and analyses of his music

  2. Mendelssohn : his life and times

    Moshansky, Mozelle
    Expanded ed - Neptune City, NJ : Paganiniana Publications, 1981

    Mendelssohn: his Life and Times investigates the composer's background as a son of a wealthy Jewish banker, living in an atmosphere dominated by the arts where he quickly showed himself to be a composer and pianist of genius. This absorbing study describes the young composer's life in the Berlin of the 1820's, his meetings with Goethe, his role in reviving for the first time in a hundred years Bach's St. Matthew Passion, his visits to England and his grand tour of Italy and Switzerland. Wide use is made of Mendelssohn's letters and the reminiscences of friends and colleagues including Berlioz, Wagner, Moscheles, Karl Klingemann, Julius Benedict, and Ferdinand Hiller. Contemporary reviews and a selection of paintings and engravings, some by Mendelssohn himself, lend further color to the narrative [Publisher description]

  3. Mendelssohn, the organ, and the music of the past : constructing historical legacies

    Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2014.

    By upbringing, family connections, and education, Felix Mendelssohn was ideally positioned to contribute to the historical legacies of the German people, who in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars discovered that they were a nation with a distinct culture. The number of cultural icons of German nationalism that Mendelssohn "discovered, " promoted, or was asked to promote (by way of commissions) in his compositions is striking: Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press, Durer and Nuremberg, Luther and the Augsburg Confession as the manifesto of Protestantism, Bach and the St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven and his claims to universal brotherhood. The essays in this volume investigate from a variety of perspectives Mendelssohn's relationship to the music of the past, including the significance of Bach's music for the Mendelssohn family, the homages to Bach in Mendelssohn's organ compositions, the influence of Beethoven in the Reformation Symphony, and Mendelssohn's reception and use of Handel's oratorios. Together, the essays shed light on the construction of legacies that, in some cases, served to assert German cultural supremacy only two decades after the composer's death in 1847. Contributors: Celia Applegate, John Michael Cooper, Hans Davidsson, Wm. A. Little, Peter Mercer-Taylor, Siegwart Reichwald, Glenn Stanley, Russell Stinson, Benedict Taylor, Nicholas Thistlethwaite, Jurgen Thym, R. Larry Todd, Christoph Wolff Jurgen Thym is professor emeritus of musicology at the Eastman School of Music and editor of Of Poetry and Song: Approaches to the Nineteenth-Century Lied (University of Rochester Press, 2010).

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