Table of Contents
Preface, John Michael Cooper, Julie D PrandiList of PlatesList of FiguresList of TablesList of Musical ExamplesList of ContributorsAbbreviationsPart I: Sources and Source Problems1. 'It seems to have been lost': On Missing and Recovered Mendelssohn Sources, Ralf Wehner2. Editorial Problems in Mendelssohn's Organ Preludes, Op. 37, Pietro Zappalà3. Mendelssohn's TwoInfelice Arias: Problems of Sources and Musical Identity, John Michael CooperPart II: Individual Works4. Mendelssohn's First Composition, Peter Ward Jones5. The Programme of Mendelssohn's 'Reformation' Symphony, Op. 107, Wolfgang Dinglinger6. Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Julie D. Prandi7. Just how 'Scottish' is the 'Scottish' Symphony? Thoughts on Poetic Content and Form in Mendelssohn's Opus 56, Thomas Schmidt-BestePart III: Repertoires8. 'Indessen wollte ich mich Ihnen gern gefällig beweisen': On Some Occasional Works, with an Unknown Composition by Mendelssohn, Christoph Hellmundt9. 'So kann ich es nicht componiren': Mendelssohn, Opera, and the Libretto Problem, Monika Hennemann10. Mendelssohn's Cycles of Songs, Douglass SeatonPart IV: Felix and Fanny11. Similarities and Differences in the Artistic Development of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in a Family Context: Observations on Selected Works from 1820 to 1823 in the Berlin Autograph Volumes, Hans-Günter Klein12. On Stylistic Affinities in the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, R. Larry Todd13. Virtuoso Texture in Fanny Hensel's Piano Music, Camilla Cai14. Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel: The Search for Perfection in Opposing Private and Public Works, Françoise TillardPart V: Reception History15. Felix Mendelssohn and his Place in the Organ World of his Time, Wm. A. Little16. Epigones of an Epigone? Concerning Mendelssohn's String Quartets—and the Consequences, Friedhelm Krummacher17. The Composer as Other: Gender and Race in the Biography of Felix Mendelssohn, Marian Wilson KimberSelect BibliographyIndex
