The Mendelssohns

PREFACE; LIST OF PLATES; LIST OF FIGURES; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF MUSICAL EXAMPLES; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; ABBREVIATIONS; PART I: SOURCES AND SOURCE PROBLEMS; 1. 'It seeems to have been lost': On Missing and Recovered Mendelssohn Sources; 2. Editorial Problems in Mendelssohn's Organ Preludes, Op. 37; 3. Mendelssohn's TwoInfelice Arias: Problems of Sources and Musical Identity; PART II: INDIVIDUAL WORKS; 4. Mendelssohn's First Composition; 5. The Programme of Mendelssohn's 'Reformation' Symphony, Op. 107; 6. Kindred Spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die erste Walpurgisnacht; 7. Just how 'Scottish' is the 'Scottish' Symphony? Thoughts on Poetic Content and Form in Mendelssohn's Opus 56; PART III: REPERTOIRES; 8. 'Indessen wollte ich mich Ihnen gern gefallig beweisen': On Some Occasional Works, with an Unknown Composition by Mendelssohn; 9. 'So kann ich es nicht componiren': Mendelssohn, Opera, and the Libretto Problem; 10. Mendelssohn's Cycles of Songs; PART IV: FELIX AND FANNY; 11. 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; 12. On Stylistic Commonalities in the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy; 13. Virtuoso Texture in Fanny Hensel's Piano Music; 14. Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel: The Search for Perfection in Opposing Private and Public Works; PART V: RECEPTION HISTORY; 15. Felix Mendelssohn and his Place in the Organ World of his Time; 16. Epigones of an Epigone? Concerning Mendelssohn's String Quartets--and the Consequences; 17. The Composer as Other: Gender and Race in the Biography of Felix Mendelssohn; SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX