Mendelssohn Perspectives

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures, Plates and Illustrations -- List of Tables -- List of Musical Examples -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART 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 -- PART 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 -- PART 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 -- PART 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 -- 12 Cyclic Form and Musical Memory in Mendelssohn's String Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 12 -- PART 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 -- Bibliography -- Index of Mendelssohn's Works -- General Index.