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On the roof of Prague's concert hall, Julius Schlesinger, aspiring SS officer, is charged with the removal of the statue of the Jew Mendelssohn--but which one is he? Remembering his course on "racial science," Schlesinger instructs his men to pull down the statue with the biggest nose. Only as the statue topples does he recognize the face of Richard Wagner. This is just the beginning in Weil's novel, which traces the transformation of ordinary liveds in Nazi-occupied Prague.

For your consideration...A Mendelssohn: Adagio and Presto Agitato in B flat Minor in Brand New condition! We attempt to highlight cosmetic defects ...

Claudio Abbado Mendelssohn Performer: Elizabeth Connell, Karita Mattila, Hans-Peter Blochwitz, Shlomo Mintz CD 1: Symphony No.1, Octet in E flat, Overtures "A Midsummer Night's Dream" & "The Hebrides", Meeresstille und glckliche Fahrt (London Symphony Orchestra) CD 2: Symphony No.2 "Hymn of Praise" (Connell, Mattila, Blochwitz, LSChorus, LSO) CD 3: Symphony No.3 "Scottish", Overture "The Fair Melusine", "Trumpet Overture", Ruy Blas, Overture to Victor Hugo's play (LSO) CD 4: Symphony No.4 "Ital

This paperback edition of Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night addresses tolerance and acceptance in the face of cultural, political, and religious strife. Its point of departure is the Walpurgis Night. The Night, also known as Beltane or May Eve, was supposedly an annual witches' Sabbath that centered around the Brocken, the highest peak of the Harz Mountains. After exploring how a notoriously pagan celebration came to be named after the Christian missionary St. Walpurgis (ca. 710-79), John Michael Cooper discusses the Night's treatments in several closely interwoven works by Goethe and Mendelssohn. His book situates those works in their immediate personal and professional contexts, as well as among treatments by a wide array of other artists, philosophers, and political thinkers, including Voltaire, Lessing, Shelley, Heine, Delacroix, and Berlioz. In an age of decisive political and religious conflict, Walpurgis Night became a heathen muse: a source of spiritual inspiration that was neither specifically Christian, nor Jewish, nor Muslim. And Mendelssohn's and Goethe's engagements with it offer new insights into its role in European cultural history, as well as into issues of political, religious, and social identity -- and the relations between cultural groups -- in today's world. John Michael Cooper is Professor of Music at Southwestern University and author of Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony (Oxford University Press).

An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today for several staples of the concert hall and for such popular music as "The Wedding March" and "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, R. Larry Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant, based upon painstaking research in autograph manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and paintings. Rejecting the view of the composer as a craftsman of felicitous but sentimental, saccharine works (termed by one critic "moonlight with sugar water"), Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works. Here are engaging analyses of Mendelssohn's distinctive masterpieces--the zestful Octet, puckish Midsummer Night's Dream, haunting Hebrides Overtures, and elegiac Violin Concerto in E minor. Todd describes how the composer excelled in understatement and nuance, in subtle, coloristic orchestrations that lent his scores an undeniable freshness and vividness. He also explores Mendelssohn's changing awareness of his religious heritage, Wagner's virulent anti-Semitic attack on Mendelssohn's music, the composer's complex relationship with his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and prolific composer, his avocation as a painter and draughtsman, and his remarkable, polylingual correspondence with the cultural elite of his time. Mendelssohn: A Life offers a masterful blend of biography and musical analysis. Readers will discover many new facets of the familiar but misunderstood composer and gain new perspectives on one of the most formidable musical geniuses of all time.

Otto Klemperer was very much a man of the theatre. Here, opera and drama were truly united, he said of his time at Berlins Kroll Theatre, a progressive and influential force in the heady years of the Weimar Republic. He was also a man with a sharp sense of humour: this performance of Mendelssohns incidental music to Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream both glows with enchantment and sparkles with wit. - Heather Harper soprano (A-4, B-6) Janet Baker alto (A-4) The Philharmonia Orchestra &

Mendelssohn: Symphonies 1-5 Mendelssohn / Nezet-Seguin / Chamber Orch Europe - CD 028947973379

If you listen carefully to this CD you will understand that whenever you think you have found the best, it's still possible to improve on it. Pure excitement; the brilliant technical skill of the three players is coupled with a style of interpretation which loves extremes and allows for a - positive - sobriety that simplifies Mendelssohn without becoming technocratic (NZ)

Mendelssohn: Elias Op.70 Mendelssohn, Felix / Rias Kammerchor - CD 4260234831115

These 48 pieces were composed over a period of two decades, beginning in 1832, and published in eight groups of six each. Many of these songs were dedicated to the women in Mendelssohn's life and reflect the sunniest qualities of his melodiousness, spontaneity and invention. Maurice Hinson has skillfully researched and edited these works back to their original form and provides a very informative introduction, which includes many detailed suggestions for a stylistic interpretation and performance, as well as biographical information on the composer's life. The comb binding creates a lay-flat book that is perfect for study and performance.

What is it that makes Mendelssohn's music recognizably unique? This study hopes to make a contribution to the answer through an analysis of an extensive sample of Mendelssohn's instrumental music. I identify a compositional practice which I believe to be a hallmark of his style: the smoothing over of formal junctures of various types. By and large, Mendelssohn's dynamic treatment of formal junctures reflects a general concern with enhancing continuity and momentum in longer forms, a compositional issue that has always presented a challenge to composers in the Western music tradition. The main purpose of our investigation, then, is to delineate the specific techniques that Mendelssohn used in his characteristic effort to bridge over formal divisions. Numerous of Mendelssohn's works reveal a clear (and evidently deliberate) propensity to create larger continuities by means of bridging over divisions, regardless of the formal prototype or level of structure. At the same time, an almost Mozartian clarity of form often is preserved. This might at first seem contradictory, but Mendelssohn, as I shall attempt to demonstrate, was able to find ingenious ways of having his his cake and eating it, too.

Trade Paperback 1972 Scribner's Library # SL 461. Biographies of a very special & illustrious family. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) (Trade Paperback) First Edition and Printing. LCCN: 72-172947; ISBN-10: 0684134977 / ISBN-13: 978-0684134970; Title: Mendelssohns: Three Generation of Genius (Trade Paperback) (1972), by Herbert Kupferberg (Author); Ursula Suess (Cover Design); xvi+283 pp.

Exploring many aspects of Felix Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of Mendelssohn's approach to performance, interpretation, and composing through the contextualization of specific performance events and through the theoretic actualization of performances of specific works. Contributors rely on manuscripts, marked or edited scores, and performance parts to convey a deeper understanding of musical expression in 19th-century Germany. This study of Mendelssohn's work as conductor, pianist, organist, violist, accompanist, music director, and editor of old and new music offers valuable perspectives on 19th-century performance practice issues.

Trade Paperback 1972 Scribner's Library # SL 461. Biographies of a very special & illustrious family. Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) (Trade Paperback) First Edition and Printing. LCCN: 72-172947; ISBN-10: 0684134977 / ISBN-13: 978-0684134970; Title: Mendelssohns: Three Generation of Genius (Trade Paperback) (1972), by Herbert Kupferberg (Author); Ursula Suess (Cover Design); xvi+283 pp.

Mendelssohn in Scotland written by David Jenkins and Mark Visocchi published by Chappell and Company

Since about 1970 there has been a veritable renaissance in scholarship and performances concerning the works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Fanny Hensel. The essays in this book, presenting the findings of three generations of members of the international community of Mendelssohn/Hensel scholars, constitute a compendium of cutting-edge research relating to these two important representatives of nineteenth-century musical culture.

This series of biographies presents the great composers against the background of their times. Each draws on personal letters and recollections, engravings, paintings and, when they exist, photographs, to present a complete picture of the composer’s life.

Exploring many aspects of Felix Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of Mendelssohn's approach to performance, interpretation, and composing through the contextualization of specific performance events and through the theoretic actualization of performances of specific works. Contributors rely on manuscripts, marked or edited scores, and performance parts to convey a deeper understanding of musical expression in 19th-century Germany. This study of Mendelssohn's work as conductor, pianist, organist, violist, accompanist, music director, and editor of old and new music offers valuable perspectives on 19th-century performance practice issues.

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Praga brings together historical recordings of two masterpieces by Mendelssohn from two legendary conductors. Famous for its opening, where the dreamy cry of the horn perfectly captures the atmosphere of Shakespeare's play, Rafael Kubelk leads the Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks in this 1964 performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Kurt Masur leads the Gewandhaus Leipzig in this 1969 performance of The First Walpurgis Night. The poem by Goethe tells the story of Druids attempting