Table of Contents
Preface John Michael Cooper, Julie D Prandi
List of Plates
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Musical Examples
List of Contributors
Abbreviations
Part I: Sources and Source Problems
1. 'It seems to have been lost': On Missing and Recovered Mendelssohn Sources, Ralf Wehner
2. Editorial Problems in Mendelssohn's Organ Preludes, Op. 37, Pietro Zappalà
3. Mendelssohn's TwoInfelice Arias: Problems of Sources and Musical Identity, John Michael Cooper
Part II: Individual Works
4. Mendelssohn's First Composition, Peter Ward Jones
5. The Programme of Mendelssohn's 'Reformation' Symphony, Op. 107, Wolfgang Dinglinger
6. Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Julie D. Prandi
7. Just how 'Scottish' is the 'Scottish' Symphony? Thoughts on Poetic Content and Form in Mendelssohn's Opus 56, Thomas Schmidt-Beste
Part III: Repertoires
8. 'Indessen wollte ich mich Ihnen gern gefällig beweisen': On Some Occasional Works, with an Unknown Composition by Mendelssohn, Christoph Hellmundt
9. 'So kann ich es nicht componiren': Mendelssohn, Opera, and the Libretto Problem, Monika Hennemann
10. Mendelssohn's Cycles of Songs, Douglass Seaton
Part IV: Felix and Fanny
11. Similarities and Differences in the Artistic Development of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in a Family Context: Observations on Selected Works from 1820 to 1823 in the Berlin Autograph Volumes, Hans-Günter Klein
12. On Stylistic Affinities in the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, R. Larry Todd
13. Virtuoso Texture in Fanny Hensel's Piano Music, Camilla Cai
14. Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel: The Search for Perfection in Opposing Private and Public Works, Françoise Tillard
Part V: Reception History
15. Felix Mendelssohn and his Place in the Organ World of his Time, Wm. A. Little
16. Epigones of an Epigone? Concerning Mendelssohn's String Quartets—and the Consequences, Friedhelm Krummacher
17. The Composer as Other: Gender and Race in the Biography of Felix Mendelssohn, Marian Wilson Kimber
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Index
