Contents
Preface ix Acknowledgments xiii
PART I ESSAYS
The Aesthetics of Assimilation and Affirmation: Reconstructing the Career of Felix Mendelssohn 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 Elijah, 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 Antigone 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Mendelssohn as Teacher, with Previously Unpublished Letters from Mendelssohn to Wilhelm v. Boguslawski BRUNO HAKE TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE 3IO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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