Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. PART I: ESSAYS
6. The Aesthetics of Assimilation and Affirmation: Reconstructing the Career of Felix Mendelssohn 5
7. Some Notes on an Anthem by Mendelssohn 43
8. Mendelssohn and the Berlin Singakademie: The Composer at the Crossroads 65
9. The Power of Class: Fanny Hensel 86
10. Samplings 100
11. Elijah, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the New Covenant: On the Aria “Es ist genug” in Felix Mendelssohn- Bartholdy’'s Oratorio Elijah 121
12. The Incidental Politics to Mendelssohn’s Antigone 137
13. The Unfinished Mendelssohn 158
14. PART II: MEMOIRS
15. Conversations with Felix Mendelssohn 187
16. From the Memoirs of Adolf Bernhard Marx 206
17. Reminiscences of Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy 221
18. Reminiscences of Mendelssohn by His English Pupil 237
19. From the Memoirs of F. Max Müller 252
20. From the Memoirs of Ernst Rudorff 259
21. PART III LETTERS
22. Letters from Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy to Aloys Fuchs 275
23. Mendelssohn as Teacher 310
24. PART IV: CRITICISM AND RECEPTION
25. Robert Schumann with Reference to Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and the Development of Modern Music in General 341
26. Heinrich Heine on Mendelssohn 352
27. On F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy’s Oratorio Elijah 364
28. On Mendelssohn and Some of His Contemporary Critics 382
29. Felix Mendelssohn 390
30. Index of Names and Compositions 395
31. List of Contributors 402