Contents

Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii

PART I ESSAYS

The Aesthetics of Assimilation and Affirmation: Reconstructing the Career of LEON BOTSTEIN 5 Some Notes on an Anthem by Mendelssohn DAVID BRODBECK 43 Mendelssohn and the Berlin Singakademie: The Composer at the Crossroads WM. A. LITTLE 65 The Power of Class: Fanny Hensel NANCY B. REICH 86 Samplings CLAUDIO SPIES 100 , Johann Sebastian Bach, and the New Covenant: On the Aria "Es ist genug" in Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy's Oratorio Elijah MARTIN STAEHELIN TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE 121 The Incidental Politics to Mendelssohn's MICHAEL P. STEINBERG 137 The Unfinished Mendelssohn R. LARRY TODD 158

PART II

MEMOIRS Conversations with Felix Mendelssohn JOHANN CHRISTIAN LOBE TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE 187

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From the Memoirs of Adolf Bernhard Marx TRANSLATED BV SUSAN GILLESPIE 206

Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy JULIUS SCHUBRING 221

Reminiscences of Mendelssohn by His English Pupil CHARLES EDWARD HORSLEY 237

From the Memoirs of F. Max Muller 252

From the Memoirs of Ernst Rudorff TRANSLATED AND ANNOTATED BY NANCY B. REICH 259

PART III

LETTERS

Letters from Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to Aloys Fuchs EDUARD HANSLICK TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE 275

Mendelssohn as Teacher, with Previously Unpublished Letters from Mendelssohn to Wilhelm v. Boguslawski BRUNO HAKE TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE 3IO

PART IV

CRITICISM AND RECEPTION

Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn- Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General FRANZ BRENDEL TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE 34I

Heinrich Heine on Mendelssohn SELECTED AND INTRODUCED BY LEON BOTSTEIN TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE 352

On F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Oratorio Elijah OTTO JAHN TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE 364

On Mendelssohn and Some of His Contemporary Critics FRIEDRICH NIECKS 382

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Felix Mendelssohn HANS VON BÜLOW TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE

Index of Names and Compositions 395

List of Contributors 403

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