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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 • V • CONTENTS 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to Aloys Fuchs EDUARD HANSLICK TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE 275 Mendelssohn as Teacher, with Previously Unpublished Letters from Mendelssohn to Wilhelm v. Boguslawski BRUNO HAKE TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE 3IO PART IV CRITICISM AND RECEPTION Robert Schumann with Reference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 • vi • CONTENTS Felix Mendelssohn HANS VON BÜLOW TRANSLATED BY SUSAN GILLESPIE Index of Names and Compositions 395 List of Contributors 403 vii .