|
Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Western music, periods & styles > Romantic music (c 1830 to c 1900)
|
Buy Now
Mendelssohn - A Life in Music (Paperback, New Ed)
Loot Price: R1,101
Discovery Miles 11 010
|
|
|
Mendelssohn - A Life in Music (Paperback, New Ed)
Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days
|
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many unpublished and little known works.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 discovermany new facets of the
familiar but misunderstood composer and gain new perspectives on
one of the most formidable musical geniuses of all time.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
