Author: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780918728524
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-47), pianist and composer, maintained a prolific and witty correspondence with her younger brother Felix over the course of approximately 25 years, which is here presented in English translation, with the original German for reference. As the leader of a vibrant salon, Hensel deploys her critical prowess to describe Berlin musical life, including its conservative institutions and personalities, as well as to evaluate Felix's works-in-progress in detail. We also learn about Hensel's own compositions, her attitudes toward herself as a composer, and the significance of Felix's views on the formation of those attitudes. Hensel's letters provide a fascinating glimpse into the problems and challenges facing gifted women musicians in the nineteenth century. The 150 letters are drawn from the Green Books collection of letters addressed to Felix Mendelssohn, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Reviews-These letters reveal Fanny Mendelssohn to be a thoroughly fascinating individual, one whose special relationship to Felix would be enough to guarantee the interest of the documents. But we soon become engrossed with Fanny herself, as composer, as critic, as musical commentator and figure in the musical life of Berlin. To watch this world through her eyes is to watch it come alive through the wisdom, wit, and grace of a remarkable person. Citron has a gift for rendering the substance and spirit of these letters into charming and effective English prose that preserves something of the formality of nineteenth-century discourse together with the passion and spirit of Fanny Mendelssohn. Philip Gossett ...reading this volume is a pleasure, not just a musicological duty. Clifford Bartlettthe volume contains penetrating and highly scholarly critical commentaries and is a valuable addition to mendelssohniana. J.R. Belanger, Choice, April 1988
The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn
Author: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780918728524
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-47), pianist and composer, maintained a prolific and witty correspondence with her younger brother Felix over the course of approximately 25 years, which is here presented in English translation, with the original German for reference. As the leader of a vibrant salon, Hensel deploys her critical prowess to describe Berlin musical life, including its conservative institutions and personalities, as well as to evaluate Felix's works-in-progress in detail. We also learn about Hensel's own compositions, her attitudes toward herself as a composer, and the significance of Felix's views on the formation of those attitudes. Hensel's letters provide a fascinating glimpse into the problems and challenges facing gifted women musicians in the nineteenth century. The 150 letters are drawn from the Green Books collection of letters addressed to Felix Mendelssohn, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Reviews-These letters reveal Fanny Mendelssohn to be a thoroughly fascinating individual, one whose special relationship to Felix would be enough to guarantee the interest of the documents. But we soon become engrossed with Fanny herself, as composer, as critic, as musical commentator and figure in the musical life of Berlin. To watch this world through her eyes is to watch it come alive through the wisdom, wit, and grace of a remarkable person. Citron has a gift for rendering the substance and spirit of these letters into charming and effective English prose that preserves something of the formality of nineteenth-century discourse together with the passion and spirit of Fanny Mendelssohn. Philip Gossett ...reading this volume is a pleasure, not just a musicological duty. Clifford Bartlettthe volume contains penetrating and highly scholarly critical commentaries and is a valuable addition to mendelssohniana. J.R. Belanger, Choice, April 1988
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780918728524
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 752
Book Description
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805-47), pianist and composer, maintained a prolific and witty correspondence with her younger brother Felix over the course of approximately 25 years, which is here presented in English translation, with the original German for reference. As the leader of a vibrant salon, Hensel deploys her critical prowess to describe Berlin musical life, including its conservative institutions and personalities, as well as to evaluate Felix's works-in-progress in detail. We also learn about Hensel's own compositions, her attitudes toward herself as a composer, and the significance of Felix's views on the formation of those attitudes. Hensel's letters provide a fascinating glimpse into the problems and challenges facing gifted women musicians in the nineteenth century. The 150 letters are drawn from the Green Books collection of letters addressed to Felix Mendelssohn, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Reviews-These letters reveal Fanny Mendelssohn to be a thoroughly fascinating individual, one whose special relationship to Felix would be enough to guarantee the interest of the documents. But we soon become engrossed with Fanny herself, as composer, as critic, as musical commentator and figure in the musical life of Berlin. To watch this world through her eyes is to watch it come alive through the wisdom, wit, and grace of a remarkable person. Citron has a gift for rendering the substance and spirit of these letters into charming and effective English prose that preserves something of the formality of nineteenth-century discourse together with the passion and spirit of Fanny Mendelssohn. Philip Gossett ...reading this volume is a pleasure, not just a musicological duty. Clifford Bartlettthe volume contains penetrating and highly scholarly critical commentaries and is a valuable addition to mendelssohniana. J.R. Belanger, Choice, April 1988
The Mendelssohn Family (1729-1847) from Letters and Journals
Author: Sebastian Hensel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
The Mendelssohn Family (1729-1847) from Letters and Journals
Author: Sebastian Hensel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Felix Mendelssohn, a Life in Letters
Author: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Publisher: Froom International Pub
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Selected letters by the nineteenth century German composer to his family, friends, and colleagues help document the developing concerns of his life.
Publisher: Froom International Pub
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
Selected letters by the nineteenth century German composer to his family, friends, and colleagues help document the developing concerns of his life.
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, from 1833 to 1847
Author: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Publisher: London : Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Author: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375005873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3375005873
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1863.
Fanny Hensel
Author: R. Larry Todd
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199884528
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, R. Larry Todd offers a compelling, authoritative account of Hensel's life and music, and her struggle to emerge as a publicly recognized composer.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199884528
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-1847) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their rediscovery late in the twentieth century. In Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, R. Larry Todd offers a compelling, authoritative account of Hensel's life and music, and her struggle to emerge as a publicly recognized composer.
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847 Edited by Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Carl Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Author: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Letters ... from 1833 to 1847
Author: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Composers
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from 1833 to 1847, ed. by P. and C. Mendelssohn Bartholdy. With a catalogue of all his musical compositions by J. Rietz. Tr. by lady Wallace
Author: Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description