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CHILD'S OWN BOOK of Great Musicians: MENDELSSOHN. The Story of a Happy Brother and Sister Who Loved to Make Music
Author : Thomas Tapper
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File Size : 43,46 MB
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CHILD'S OWN BOOK of Great Musicians: MENDELSSOHN. The Story of a Happy Brother and Sister Who Loved to Make Music
Author : Elbert Hubbard
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Composers
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Author : Thomas Tapper
Publisher :
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 43,68 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Composers
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Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 29,79 MB
Release : 2012-01-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1400831628
During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German and English musical life. Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his contemporaries, the composer's own letters, and early critical reviews of his music, this volume explores various facets of Mendelssohn's music, his social and intellectual circles, and his career. The essays in Part I cover the nature of a Jewish identity in Mendelssohn's music (Leon Botstein); his relationship to the Berlin Singakademie (William A. Little); the role of his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and accomplished composer (Nancy Reich); Mendelssohn's compositional craft in the Italian Symphony and selected concert overtures (Claudio Spies); his oratorio Elijah (Martin Staehelin); his incidental music to Sophocles' Antigone (Michael P. Steinberg); his anthem "Why, O Lord, delay forever?" (David Brodbeck); and an unfinished piano sonata (R. Larry Todd). Part II presents little-known memoirs by such contemporaries as J. C. Lobe, A. B. Marx, Julius Schubring, C. E. Horsley, Max Mller, and Betty Pistor. Mendelssohn's letters are represented in Part III by his correspondence with Wilhelm von Boguslawski and Aloys Fuchs, here translated for the first time. Part IV contains late nineteenth-century critical reviews by Heinrich Heine, Franz Brendel, Friedrich Niecks, Otto Jahn, and Hans von Blow.
Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 1983-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521246552
This book is a study and critical edition of Mendelssohn's composition exercise book from his early period of study with Carl Friedrich Zelter (1819-1821). The workbook illustrates in considerable detail the young musician's struggle to master the rules of part writing and principles of counterpoint. Much of Zelter's systematic teaching method is grounded in the eighteenth-century theoretical tradition of Berlin; not surprisingly, the exercises bear the stamp of the music of J. S. Bach, which heavily influenced such Berlin musicians as C. P. E. Bach, C. F. C. Fasch, Marpurg, Kirnberger, Zelter and Mendelssohn. There is little doubt that the historicist attitude of the mature Mendelssohn - as seen in his efforts to revive the works of Bach and Handel and in his propensity toward strict contrapuntal techniques in his own music - was conditioned by these studies with Zelter. The publication of the workbook sheds new light on the early development of one ofthe most important nineteenth-century composers who, though affected by the new wave of romanticism that swept over Europe, never lost his respect for the past. No less important, the manuscript includes several previously unpublished pieces which rank among Mendelssohn's earliest compositions.
Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 43,67 MB
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195110432
An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor. Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant.
Author : Susan Zannos
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1545748802
Unlike most 19th Century composers who had to struggle to make a living, Felix Mendelssohn came from a very wealthy family. He never had to work, but he worked harder to fulfill his family s expectations than many who suffered poverty. He was an extremely gifted musical genius who wrote some of his best works while he was still a teenager. Mendelssohn gained fame as a conductor, and as the organizer of many music festivals in Germany and in England where he was always enthusiastically welcomed. Unlike some composers who only performed their own work, Mendelssohn had a passion for presenting the best music of all periods. He was also very generous in helping younger composers by playing their work. His weakness was being unable to say no to the many requests he received for performances. He was a perfectionist who devoted his energy to presenting the highest possible level of musical perfection. As his fame spread, he had little time left for his own compositions. Mendelssohn died at the age of 38, essentially from exhaustion brought on by overworking.
Author : RaeAnna Goss
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Page : 47 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2019-01-30
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ISBN : 9781791762179
This first book includes the composers Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Thomas Tapper originally published each composer biography to be cut, pasted, and bound into a book. This already bound printing has been formatted for students to cut and paste biographical sketches into the story. They will love having a book of their own to accompany their listening studies of the great musicians.
Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 38,92 MB
Release : 2003-10-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199839379
An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today for several staples of the concert hall and for such popular music as "The Wedding March" and "Hark, the Herald Angels Sing." Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, R. Larry Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant, based upon painstaking research in autograph manuscripts, correspondence, diaries, and paintings. Rejecting the view of the composer as a craftsman of felicitous but sentimental, saccharine works (termed by one critic "moonlight with sugar water"), Todd reexamines the composer's entire oeuvre, including many unpublished and little known works. Here are engaging analyses of Mendelssohn's distinctive masterpieces--the zestful Octet, puckish Midsummer Night's Dream, haunting Hebrides Overtures, and elegiac Violin Concerto in E minor. Todd describes how the composer excelled in understatement and nuance, in subtle, coloristic orchestrations that lent his scores an undeniable freshness and vividness. He also explores Mendelssohn's changing awareness of his religious heritage, Wagner's virulent anti-Semitic attack on Mendelssohn's music, the composer's complex relationship with his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a child prodigy and prolific composer, his avocation as a painter and draughtsman, and his remarkable, polylingual correspondence with the cultural elite of his time. Mendelssohn: A Life offers a masterful blend of biography and musical analysis. Readers will discover many new facets of the familiar but misunderstood composer and gain new perspectives on one of the most formidable musical geniuses of all time.
Author : Kathrine Lois Scobey
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 2022-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Stories of Great Musicians" by Kathrine Lois Scobey, Olive Brown Horne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.