Mendelssohn and His World

FrontMatter, pg. i
Contents, pg. v
Preface, pg. ix
Acknowledgments, pg. xiii
The Aesthetics of Assimilation and Affirmation: Reconstructing the Career of Felix Mendelssohn, pg. 5
Some Notes on an Anthem by Mendelssohn, pg. 43
Mendelssohn and the Berlin Singakademie: The Composer at the Crossroads, pg. 65
The Power of Class: Fanny Hensel, pg. 86
Samplings, pg. 100
Elijah, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the New Covenant: On the Aria "Es ist genug" in Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy''s Oratorio Elijah, pg. 121
The Incidental Politics to Mendelssohn's Antigone, pg. 137
The Unfinished Mendelssohn, pg. 158
Conversations with Felix Mendelssohn, pg. 187
From the Memoirs of Adolf Bernhard Marx, pg. 206
Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, pg. 221
Reminiscences of Mendelssohn by His English Pupil, pg. 237
From the Memoirs of F. Max Müller, pg. 252
From the Memoirs of Ernst Rudorff, pg. 259
Letters from Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to Aloys Fuchs, pg. 275
Mendelssohn as Teacher, pg. 310
Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General, pg. 341
Heinrich Heine on Mendelssohn, pg. 352
On F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's Oratorio Elijah, pg. 364
On Mendelssohn and Some of His Contemporary Critics, pg. 382
Felix Mendelssohn, pg. 390
Index of Names and Compositions, pg. 395
List of Contributors, pg. 402