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Author: Wm. A. Little Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199741832 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 504
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Mendelssohn and the Organ is the first comprehensive historical-critical study in any language to examine the role of the organ in Mendelssohn's personal and professional career. It examines his entire oeuvre for the instrument, including the Berlin-Krakow manuscripts, and presents for the first time Mendelssohn's complete correspondence with his English publisher, Charles Coventry.
Author: Wm. A. Little Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199741832 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 504
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Mendelssohn and the Organ is the first comprehensive historical-critical study in any language to examine the role of the organ in Mendelssohn's personal and professional career. It examines his entire oeuvre for the instrument, including the Berlin-Krakow manuscripts, and presents for the first time Mendelssohn's complete correspondence with his English publisher, Charles Coventry.
Author: Jürgen Thym Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1580464742 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 352
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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.
Author: Wm. A. Little Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195394380 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 504
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Although Mendelssohn was most famous during his lifetime as a composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor, he also enjoyed an enviable reputation as a highly skilled organist. The instrument had fascinated - one might almost say mesmerized - him from earliest youth, but aside from a year or so of formal training at the age of about twelve or thirteen, he was entirely self-taught. He never held a position as church organist, and he never had any organ pupils. Nevertheless, the instrument played a uniquely important role in his personal life. In the course of his many travels, whether in major cities or tiny villages, he invariably gravitated to the organ loft, where he might spend hours playing the works of Bach or simply improvising. Although the piano clearly served Mendelssohn as an eminently practical instrument, the organ seems to have been his instrument of choice. He searched out an organ loft, not because he had to, but because he wanted to, because on the organ he could find catharsis. Indeed, as he once exclaimed to his parents, after reading a portion of Schiller's Wilhelm Tell, "I must rush off to the monastery and work off my excitement on the organ!"Mendelssohn's public performance on the organ in Germany was rare, and he gave but one public recital - in the Thomas-Kirche in Leipzig in 1840. In England, however, he evidently felt more comfortable on the organ bench and played there often before large crowds. Indeed, he performed as Guest Organist twice at the Birmingham Music Festivals, in 1837 and 1842.Given Mendelssohn's profound affinity for the organ, it is remarkable that he composed but relatively little for the instrument, and assigned an Opus number to only two works - his Three Preludes and Fugues for Organ (Op. 37) and his Six Sonatas for the Organ (Op. 65). A small number of organ works, plus sketches and drafts, were scattered among his musical papers; most of these only gradually found their way into print, and it was not until the late twentieth century that an edition of his complete organ works was finally published. This volume is intended as a companion to that edition.
Author: Joseph W G Hathaway Publisher: Legare Street Press ISBN: 9781019419885 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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Felix Mendelssohn was one of the great composers of the Romantic era, and his organ works are among his most beloved compositions. In this book, Joseph Hathaway offers a detailed analysis of Mendelssohn's organ pieces, providing valuable insights for students and scholars alike. Whether you're a seasoned performer or a curious listener, this book is an essential guide to the music of one of the greatest composers of the 19th century. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Russell Stinson Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0199747032 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 242
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In this penetrating study, Russell Stinson considers how four of the greatest composers of the nineteenth century-Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Franz Liszt, and Johannes Brahms-responded to the model of Bach's organ music. His book represents a major step forward in the literature on the so-called Bach revival.
Author: Siegwart Reichwald Publisher: Indiana University Press ISBN: 0253002613 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 274
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Exploring many aspects of Felix Mendelssohn's multi-faceted career as musician and how it intersects with his work as composer, contributors discuss practical issues of music making such as performance space, instruments, tempo markings, dynamics, phrasings, articulations, fingerings, and instrument techniques. They present the conceptual and ideological underpinnings of Mendelssohn's approach to performance, interpretation, and composing through the contextualization of specific performance events and through the theoretic actualization of performances of specific works. Contributors rely on manuscripts, marked or edited scores, and performance parts to convey a deeper understanding of musical expression in 19th-century Germany. This study of Mendelssohn's work as conductor, pianist, organist, violist, accompanist, music director, and editor of old and new music offers valuable perspectives on 19th-century performance practice issues.
Author: Felix Mendelssohn Publisher: Alfred Music ISBN: 9781457475443 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 124
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Expertly arranged Organ music by Felix Mendelssohn from the Kalmus Edition series. These Romantic style works include: * Three Preludes and Fugues from Opus 37 * Six Sonatas from Opus 65
Author: Joseph W. G. Hathaway Publisher: Forgotten Books ISBN: 9780267896981 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 142
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Excerpt from An Analysis of Mendelssohn's Organ Works: A Study of Their Structural Features, for the Use of Students The Author, in presenting this little work to the public, does so with a considerable amount of diffi dence, and with a full sense of its many short comings. It is an enlargement of some articles that appeared originally in serial form, and it is hoped that in their present shape they may be of use to the student, for whom they were expressly written. Some acquaintance with fugues and other forms is meces sarily presupposed, and, although technical terms have been avoided as far as possible, a certain amount are obviously enforced by the nature of the subject. The student should make himself familiar with these in all their bearings before reading this work, and should also have a copy of the Organ. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Wm. A. Little
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Author: Jürgen Thym
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