The Mendelssohn Family (1729-1847) from Letters and Journals
Author : Sebastian Hensel
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Sebastian Hensel
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 45,41 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.
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Publisher : Ardent Media
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 29,64 MB
Release : 2013
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Author : Lauren Belfer
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 10,19 MB
Release : 2016-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062428543
National Jewish Book Award Winner The New York Times bestselling author of A Fierce Radiance and City of Light returns with a powerful and passionate novel—inspired by historical events—about two women, one European and one American, and the mysterious choral masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach that changes both their lives. In the ruins of Germany in 1945, at the end of World War II, American soldier Henry Sachs takes a souvenir, an old music manuscript, from a seemingly deserted mansion and mistakenly kills the girl who tries to stop him. In America in 2010, Henry’s niece, Susanna Kessler, struggles to rebuild her life after she experiences a devastating act of violence on the streets of New York City. When Henry dies soon after, she uncovers the long-hidden music manuscript. She becomes determined to discover what it is and to return it to its rightful owner, a journey that will challenge her preconceptions about herself and her family’s history—and also offer her an opportunity to finally make peace with the past. In Berlin, Germany, in 1783, amid the city’s glittering salons where aristocrats and commoners, Christians and Jews, mingle freely despite simmering anti-Semitism, Sara Itzig Levy, a renowned musician, conceals the manuscript of an anti-Jewish cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach, an unsettling gift to her from Bach’s son, her teacher. This work and its disturbing message will haunt Sara and her family for generations to come. Interweaving the stories of Susanna and Sara, and their families, And After the Fire traverses over two hundred years of history, from the eighteenth century through the Holocaust and into today, seamlessly melding past and present, real and imagined. Lauren Belfer’s deeply researched, evocative, and compelling narrative resonates with emotion and immediacy.
Author : R. Larry Todd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2009-11-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 0199884528
Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, R. Larry Todd offers a compelling, authoritative account of Hensel's life and music, and her struggle to emerge as a publicly recognized composer.
Author : Sebastian Hensel
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Page : 382 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Sebastian Hensel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 28,54 MB
Release : 2013-09-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108066283
The two-volume 1881 translation of Felix Mendelssohn's nephew's account of one of the nineteenth century's most celebrated musical families.
Author : Franoise Tillard
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780931340963
Profiles the life and music of the composer Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn's older sister, who created important music in spite of her family's lack of support
Author : Sebastian Hensel
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Page : 398 pages
File Size : 28,89 MB
Release : 1882
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Author : Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Publisher : Pendragon Press
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780918728524
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-47), pianist and composer, maintained a prolific and witty correspondence with her younger brother Felix over the course of approximately 25 years, which is here presented in English translation, with the original German for reference. As the leader of a vibrant salon, Hensel deploys her critical prowess to describe Berlin musical life, including its conservative institutions and personalities, as well as to evaluate Felix's works-in-progress in detail. We also learn about Hensel's own compositions, her attitudes toward herself as a composer, and the significance of Felix's views on the formation of those attitudes. Hensel's letters provide a fascinating glimpse into the problems and challenges facing gifted women musicians in the nineteenth century. The 150 letters are drawn from the Green Books collection of letters addressed to Felix Mendelssohn, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Reviews-These letters reveal Fanny Mendelssohn to be a thoroughly fascinating individual, one whose special relationship to Felix would be enough to guarantee the interest of the documents. But we soon become engrossed with Fanny herself, as composer, as critic, as musical commentator and figure in the musical life of Berlin. To watch this world through her eyes is to watch it come alive through the wisdom, wit, and grace of a remarkable person. Citron has a gift for rendering the substance and spirit of these letters into charming and effective English prose that preserves something of the formality of nineteenth-century discourse together with the passion and spirit of Fanny Mendelssohn. Philip Gossett ...reading this volume is a pleasure, not just a musicological duty. Clifford Bartlettthe volume contains penetrating and highly scholarly critical commentaries and is a valuable addition to mendelssohniana. J.R. Belanger, Choice, April 1988