Overview

Exploring many aspects of Felix Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of Mendelssohn's approach to performance, interpretation, and composing through the contextualization of specific performance events and through the theoretic actualization of performances of specific works. Contributors rely on manuscripts, marked or edited scores, and performance parts to convey a deeper understanding of musical expression in 19th-century Germany. This study of Mendelssohn's work as conductor, pianist, organist, violist, accompanist, music director, and editor of old and new music offers valuable perspectives on 19th-century performance practice issues.

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Author:   Siegwart Reichwald ,  Siegwart Reichwald
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.635kg
ISBN:  

9780253351999

ISBN 10:   0253351995
Pages:   272
Publication Date:   25 September 2008
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Contents 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"

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... fresh insights into the practicalities of performing one of the most familiar, yet misunderstood figures of European classical music. R. Larry Todd, Duke University

""... fresh insights into the practicalities of performing one of the most familiar, yet misunderstood figures of European classical music."" R. Larry Todd, Duke University

Author Information

Siegwart Reichwald is Associate Professor of Music History at Converse College and conducts the Converse Symphony Orchestra. He is author of The Musical Genesis of Felix Mendelssohn's Paulus. He lives in Spartansburg, South Carolina.

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