Mendelssohn and Schumann : essays on their music and its context / edited by Jon W. Finson and R. Larry Todd.

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Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 1984.
Description
189 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
  • Contemporary criticism: Schumann's critical reaction to Mendelssohn / Leon Plantinga. Schumann in Brendel's Neue Zeitschrift für Musik from 1845 to 1856 / Jurgen Thym
  • Compositional process: A sketch leaf for Schumann's D-minor symphony / Rufus Hallmark. The sources for Schumann's Davidsbündlertänze, op. 6, composition, textual problems, and the role of the composer as editor / Linda Correll Roesner. Mendelssohn's late chamber music, some autograph sources recovered / Friedhelm Krummacher
  • Contextual studies: Three musical intimates of Mendelssohn and Schumann in Leipzig--Hauptmann, Moscheles, and David / William S. Newman. Fanny Hensel's letters to Felix Mendelssohn in the Green-books collection at Oxford / Marcia J. Citron. Mendelssohn's collision with the Saint-Simonians / Ralph P. Locke
  • Literary influences: Schumann and Shakespeare / Jon W. Finson. Mendelssohn's Ossianic manner, with a new source--On Lena's gloomy heath / R. Larry Todd.
ISBN
0822305690
LCCN
84010120/MN
OCLC
10778900
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