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• 12 volumes, approx. 750 pages in each volume Helmut Loos (b. 1950) studied music Wilhelm Seidel studied music, musicology • Format: 15 x 23cm education, musicology, philosophy and art and history in Freiburg and Heidelberg. • clothbound with dust jacket history. After qualifying as a university lecturer, He obtained his doctorate in 1966 in Heidelberg • Volumes published at a rate of 2 per year he was Director of the Institut für deutsche Musik with a dissertation on Die Lieder Ludwig Senﬂs; • Vol. 1 to be published end of 2008 im Osten [Institute for German Music in the East] he became a university lecturer there in 1973 with • Available on subscription, in Bergisch Gladbach from 1989–93. He has been a habilitation publication Über Rhythmustheorien volumes not sold individually Professor of Musicology at the University of der Neuzeit. He was professor at the universities of Leipzig since October 2001. Loos specialises in the Heidelberg, Marburg and Leipzig. His publications »The culmination of decades of research, music of the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular are devoted to the temporal structure of music, the Bärenreiter Mendelssohn Briefedition the reception of Beethoven, sacred music and music aesthetics in the 18th and 19th centuries and delivers the ﬁrst comprehensive edition links between Germany and Central and Eastern music of the 16th to 20th centuries, currently on of the letters of one of the central Europe. Mozart and Mendelssohn. 19th-century composers whose prose style rivaled in clarity, wit and imagination that Your Music Dealer: of the great letter writers of all time. A monumental contribution to historical scholarship that promises to thoroughly inform our understanding of Mendelssohn and his age.« R. Larry Todd (Arts & Sciences Professor, Duke University, and author of Mendelssohn: A Life in Music) Bärenreiter-Verlag · D-34111 Kassel · www.baerenreiter.com · [email protected] Graphic: www.takeoff-ks.de BÄRENREITER Errors excepted; price changes and delivery terms subject to change without notice Printed in Germany · 1/0809/6 · SPA 268 FELIX Order form [ ] Yes, I subscribe to MENDELSSOHN FELIX BARTHOLDY MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY COMPLETE COMPLETE LETTERS LETTERS IN 12 VOLUMES German text IN 12 VOLUMES ISBN 978-3-7618-2300-2

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy as The Complete Edition Postcode, City letter-writer: The correspondence begins in 1816 and ends in The Complete Edition of Letters complements • Includes for the first time approx. 5000 letters at the heart of 19th century 1847 with the composer’s death. These letters the edition of Mendelssohn’s musical works. known to be by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy European culture Telephone, E-Mail form an invaluable resource shedding light on the It provides a new, broad basis for Mendelssohn as well as 500 letters previously unknown. 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 • Detailed explanations on historical context 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. The and commentary (Ger) in each volume. Date, 1st Signature at the art of letter-writing as at the art of life and work as well as the musical and cultural body of letters is so rich and diverse that a fertile • An ideal collector’s item for bibliophiles, composing. Corresponding became part of his history of the period. They are also an important source of material is now made available for many providing an excellent means for studying Important legal notice: The publisher wish to way of life. His letters, which represent a »literary source for a period when relations between branches of research into cultural history: it offers the composer and the period in which inform you, that you are entitled to cancel your treasury of incomparable value« (according to Christians and Jews were still harmonious, as material for researchers into family, education, he lived. order in writing within one week. the linguist in German Hans Joachim Kreutzer) in Moses Mendelssohn, the composer’s grandfather, gender, travel, society, friendships and urban • Each volume with indices of individuals I confirm by my signature that I have taken their incomparable elegance, exude an irresistible had once shown. history and not least for studies of the history of and institutions mentioned, compositions cognizance of this notice. magic and allure. They are outstanding evidence Jews in the first half of the 19th century. by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and This edition will therefore be of great interest of a fascinating culture of communication, now Fanny Hensel, place names and currencies. far beyond the circles of musicologists and Based on the collection compiled by Rudolf Elvers, disappeared. • Complete index available as CD ROM in Date, 2nd Signature music specialists, to all who have an interest in edited by Helmut Loos and Wilhelm Seidel. last volume. Mendelssohn’s extensive correspondence includes the history of culture and ideas and who regard Scholarly advisory committee: Wolfgang • German text only. Your Music Dealer: letters to friends and family, letters from his Mendelssohn and his family as representatives Dinglinger, Ulrich Leisinger, Laurenz Lütteken, travels and letters he wrote to leading composers, of a unique cultural epoch. The complete Lothar Schmidt and Peter Wollny. musicians and publishers. He corresponded with correspondence shows that Mendelssohn not famous contemporaries such as Robert Schumann, only went on to become one of the central Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner as well as Johann figures of German musical culture, but that he Wolfgang von Goethe, Carl Friedrich Zelter and also maintained a network of musical contacts Alexander von Humboldt. throughout Europe. Only orders with both signatures can be processed.