Mendelssohn Perspectives

Introduction; I: Mendelssohn's Jewishness; 1: Never Perfectly Beautiful: Physiognomy, Jewishness, and Mendelssohn Portraiture; 2: Mendelssohn's 'Untergang': Reconsidering the Impact of Wagner's 'Judaism in Music'; 3: 'Wordless Judaism, Like the Songs of Mendelssohn'? Hanslick, Mendelssohn and Cultural Politics in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna; 4: Mendelssohn's Conversion to Judaism: An English Perspective; II: Between Tradition and Innovation; 5: Norm and Deformation in Mendelssohn's Sonata Forms; 6: Mendelssohn and Berlioz: Selective Affinities; 7: Between Tradition and Innovation: Mendelssohn as Music Director and His Performances of Bach in Leipzig 1; III: Mendelssohn and the Stage; 8: Converting the Pagans: Mendelssohn, Greek Tragedy, and the Christian Ethos; 9: The Phantom of Mendelssohn's Opera: Fictional Accounts and Posthumous Propaganda; IV: Style and Compositional Process; 10: Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte and the Limits of Musical Expression; 11: Improvisation, Elaboration, Composition: The Mendelssohns and the Classical Cadenza 1; 12: Cyclic Form and Musical Memory in Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 12; V: Contemporary Views and Posthumous Perspectives; 13: A Friendship in Letters: The Correspondence of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Carl Klingemann; 14: Mendelssohn as Portrayed in the Goethe-Zelter Correspondence; 15: Business is War: Mendelssohn and His Italian Publishers; 16: Beyond the Salon: Mendelssohn's French Audience