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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy The Complete Edition as letter writer: at the heart of 19th century The correspondence begins in 1816 and ends in The Complete Edition of Letters complements and Wilhelm Seidel. The complete edition European culture 1847 with the composer’s death. These letters the edition of Mendelssohn’s musical works. presents versions of the letter texts compiled form an invaluable resource shedding light on the It provides a new, broad basis for Mendelssohn from a scholarly-critical analysis of the sources, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a brilliant, genesis of his musical works. They are a treasure research as well as for the study of music and discusses their historical context and comments indeed gifted letter writer. He worked as hard trove for all who are interested in the composer’s middle-class musical life in the 19th century. on all details requiring explanation. at the art of letter writing as at the art of life and work as well as the musical and cultural The body of letters is so rich and diverse that Complete Letters in 12 Volumes composing. Corresponding became part of his history of the period. They are also an important a fertile source of material is now made available (German Text) way of life. His letters, which represent a “literary source for a period when relations between for many branches of research into cultural treasury of incomparable value” (according to Christians and Jews were still harmonious, as history: it offers material for researchers into Based on the collection compiled by Rudolf the Germanist Hans Joachim Kreutzer) in their Moses Mendelssohn, the composer’s grandfather, family, education, gender, travel, society, Elvers, edited by Helmut Loos and Wilhelm Seidel. incomparable elegance, exude an irresistible had once shown. friendships and urban history and not least for Scholarly advisory committee: Wolfgang magic and allure. They are outstanding evidence studies of the history of Jews in the first half of This edition will therefore be of great interest Dinglinger, Ulrich Leisinger, Laurenz Lütteken, of a bygone fascinating culture of communi- the 19th century. far beyond the circles of musicologists and Lothar Schmidt and Peter Wollny. cation. music specialists, to all who have an interest in This scholarly-critical complete edition is the 12 Volumes, 9,651 pp., linen-bound Mendelssohn’s extensive correspondence includes the history of culture and ideas and who regard first to contain all 5,855 of Felix Mendelssohn + CD-ROM with pdf files of the printed edition letters to friends and family, letters from his Mendelssohn and his family as representatives Bartholdy’s letters of which only a small part had and a complete index travels and letters he wrote to leading composers, of a unique cultural epoch. The complete previously been released. It is based on letters by BVK 2300 / ISBN 978-3-7618-2300-2 musicians and publishers. He corresponded with correspondence shows that Mendelssohn not Mendelssohn which Rudolf Elvers had compiled € 2,450.00 valid until 31 July 2018 famous contemporaries such as Robert Schumann, only went on to become one of the central over decades. In addition a further 500 previously € 1,500.00 valid from 1 August 2018 Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner as well as Johann figures of German musical culture, but that he unknown letters were discovered due to inter- Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Friedrich Zelter and also maintained a network of musical contacts national research carried out by a scholarly work The edition is now complete and can only be Alexander von Humboldt. throughout Europe. team in Leipzig led by head editors Helmut Loos purchased as a complete set. FELIX COMPLETE MENDELSSOHN LETTERS BARTHOLDY IN 12 VOLUMES

“The culmination of decades of research, the Bärenreiter Mendelssohn Brief edition delivers the first comprehen s ive edition of the letters of one of the centr al 19th-century composers whose prose style rivaled in clarity, wit and imagination that of the great letter writers of all time. A mon umental contribution to historical scholars hip that promises to thoroughly inform our understanding of Mendelssohn and his age.” R. Larry Todd (Arts & Sc iences Profes sor, Du ke Un iversity, and aut hor of Mendels soh n: A Life i n Music)

The Editors

Helmut Loos (b. 1950) studied music Wilhelm Seidel studied music, musicology education, musicology, philosophy and art and history in Freiburg and Heidelberg. He history. After qualifying as a university lecturer, obtained his doctorate in 1966 in Heidelberg he was Director of the Institut für deutsche with a dissertation on Die Lieder Ludwig Senfls; Musik im Osten [Institute for German Music in he became a university lecturer there in 1973 the East] in Bergisch Gladbach from 1989–93. with a habilitation publication Über Rhythmus- He has been Professor of Musicology at the theorien der Neuzeit. He was professor at the University of Leipzig since October 2001. Loos universities of Heidelberg, Marburg and Leipzig. specialises in the music of the 19th and 20th His publications are devoted to the temporal centuries, in particular the reception of structure of music, music aesthetics in the 18th Beethoven, sacred music and links between and 19th centuries and music of the 16th to 20th Germany and Central and Eastern Europe. centuries, currently on Mozart and Mendelssohn.

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