Mendelssohn Essays
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Mendelssohn Essays
When R. Larry Todd’s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn’s life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about the composer and his music, his family and his peers, and his complex reception history. Now, as we approach the 2009 bicentenary of Mendelssohn’s birth, the author has chosen and compiled fifteen essays written between 1980 and 2005, including five previously unpublished, that examine several aspects of the composer whom Goethe and Heine likened to a second Mozart. Mendelssohn Essays explores Mendelssohn’s precocity, his musical impressions of British culture, the role of the visual in his music, his compositional response to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and incomplete drafts from his musical estate of three instrumental works. In addition, a group of three essays focuses on the music of Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny Hensel, perhaps the most gifted woman composer of the century, and a significant, complex figure in the formation of the Mendelssohnian style.
Mendelssohn Essays
When R. Larry Todd’s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn’s life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about the composer and his music, his family and his peers, and his complex reception history. Now, as we approach the 2009 bicentenary of Mendelssohn’s birth, the author has chosen and compiled fifteen essays written between 1980 and 2005, including five previously unpublished, that examine several aspects of the composer whom Goethe and Heine likened to a second Mozart. Mendelssohn Essays explores Mendelssohn’s precocity, his musical impressions of British culture, the role of the visual in his music, his compositional response to Bach’s St. Matthew Passion, and incomplete drafts from his musical estate of three instrumental works. In addition, a group of three essays focuses on the music of Mendelssohn’s sister Fanny Hensel, perhaps the most gifted woman composer of the century, and a significant, complex figure in the formation of the Mendelssohnian style.
Perspectives on Mendelssohn
Author: Anna Harwell Celenza
language: en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date: 2026-02-01
New essays on the Mendelssohns and their circle, illuminating their lives, works, and influence. Perspectives on Mendelssohn presents newly commissioned essays by a group of distinguished international music historians on the Mendelssohns' life, work, and influence on their contemporaries. In four sections, the book addresses Felix Mendelssohn's works and their reception by contemporary critics, Fanny Mendelssohn's works, and the circle of composers and performers who were influenced by them both. Among the essays are Douglass Seaton's discussion of Felix Mendelssohn's aesthetics, Leon Botstein's examination of the shadow of "German guilt" that has colored Mendelssohn's critical reception, Anna Harwell Celenza's discussion of Mendelssohn's presence in popular American music and film during the early twentieth century, Marcia J. Citron's discussion of Fanny Mendelssohn's lieder, and Katharina Uhde’s essay on Joseph Joachim. Many of these essays feature close analysis of musical examples from key works by these composers. This volume will appeal to serious listeners, musicologists, and students of the history and reception of the Romantic musical era.