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Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past - Constructing Historical Legacies (Hardcover)
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Mendelssohn, the Organ, and the Music of the Past - Constructing Historical Legacies (Hardcover)
Series: Eastman Studies in Music
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Examines Mendelssohn's relationship to the past, shedding light on
the construction of historical legacies that, in some cases, served
to assert German cultural supremacy only two decades after the
composer's death. By upbringing, family connections, and education,
Felix Mendelssohn was ideally positioned to contribute to the
historical legacies of the German people, who in the aftermath of
the Napoleonic Wars discovered that they were a nation with a
distinct culture. The number of cultural icons of German
nationalism that Mendelssohn "discovered," promoted, or was asked
to promote (by way of commissions) in his compositions is striking:
Gutenberg and the invention of the printing press, Durer and
Nuremberg, Luther and the Augsburg Confession as the manifesto of
Protestantism, Bach and the St. Matthew Passion, Beethoven and his
claims to universal brotherhood. The essays in thisvolume
investigate from a variety of perspectives Mendelssohn's
relationship to the music of the past, including the significance
of Bach's music for the Mendelssohn family, the homages to Bach in
Mendelssohn's organ compositions,the influence of Beethoven in the
Reformation Symphony, and Mendelssohn's reception and use of
Handel's oratorios. Together, the essays shed light on the
construction of legacies that, in some cases, served to assert
German cultural supremacy only two decades after the composer's
death in 1847. Contributors: Celia Applegate, John Michael Cooper,
Hans Davidsson, Wm. A. Little, Peter Mercer-Taylor, Siegwart
Reichwald, Glenn Stanley, Russell Stinson, Benedict Taylor,
Nicholas Thistlethwaite, Jurgen Thym, R. Larry Todd, Christoph
Wolff Jurgen Thym is professor emeritus of musicology at the
Eastman School of Music and editor of Of Poetry and Song:
Approaches tothe Nineteenth-Century Lied (University of Rochester
Press, 2010).
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