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In the course of the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably flexible composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood on the leading edge of German and English musical existence. Bringing jointly formerly unpublished essays by means of historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by means of his contemporaries, the composer's personal letters, and early serious studies of his tune, this quantity explores a number of features of Mendelssohn's tune, his social and highbrow circles, and his occupation. The essays partially I conceal the character of a Jewish identification in Mendelssohn's track (Leon Botstein); his dating to the Berlin Singakademie (William A. Little); the position of his sister Fanny Hensel, herself a baby prodigy and comprehensive composer (Nancy Reich); Mendelssohn's compositional craft within the Italian Symphony and chosen live performance overtures (Claudio Spies); his oratorio Elijah (Martin Staehelin); his incidental song to Sophocles' Antigone (Michael P. Steinberg); his anthem "Why, O Lord, hold up forever?" (David Brodbeck); and an unfinished piano sonata (R. Larry Todd). half II offers little-known memoirs by means of such contemporaries as J. C. Lobe, A. B. Marx, Julius Schubring, C. E. Horsley, Max Mller, and Betty Pistor. Mendelssohn's letters are represented partly III through his correspondence with Wilhelm von Boguslawski and Aloys Fuchs, the following translated for the 1st time. half IV includes overdue nineteenth-century serious reports by way of Heinrich Heine, Franz Brendel, Friedrich Niecks, Otto Jahn, and Hans von Blow.

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It helps to explain—along with the visual impetus in Mendelssohn's music—the premium on surface, the stress on formal clarity and coherence, the long line, and the avoidance of developmental complexity and a sense of asymmetry. 6 ' Mendelssohn's commitment constituted an ethical response to his concern for the failures of ordinary language to transmit truth and engender harmony. Music a n d the Public: T h e M e n d e l s s o h n i a n Project T h e primacy o f music as a means of human communication in Mendelssohn's mind had little to do with the notion of absolute music associated with Eduard Hanslick and the opponents of Wagner that became widespread after the publication of Hanslick's tract (On the Beautiful in Music) in 1854.

In order to do that the true musical subject had to reflect not subjective individuality but generalizable truths whose ethical and aesthetic meaning was coincident with universal applicability. "*8 Mendelssohn, after all, was not an admirer of Meyerbeer and French grand opera. 49 It was precisely this paradox, perceived by Mendelssohn, about how alluring theatrical spectacles and the higher purposes of art could be reconciled on the operatic stage that Wagner took upon himself to solve. T h e theater could transcend the role of providing mere fantasy and entertainment and become a moral, emotional, and political force.

T h e process of exit from the ghetto and assimilation progressed concurrently with the liberalization o f economic activity and the end of the vestiges of a restrictive feudal economic order. As early as the late eighteenth century, the economic impact of toleration and Jewish emancipation—in terms of tax revenue and economic activity and its benefits for the state—had been widely discussed, but in a largely positive vein. By the time Bauer, Marx, and Wagner came to write their tracts on Jews, a negative linkage between Jews and the evils of capitalism had become commonplace—a radical transformation of earlier images of the Jew as Shylock and court financier.

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