Table of Contents

Contents
ForewordChristopher Hogwood
1. Mendelssohn's AudienceDouglass Seaton
2. Mendelssohn and the PianoKenneth Hamilton
3. Mendelssohn and the OrganPeter Ward Jones
4. The Performance of Mendelssohn's Chamber and Solo Music for ViolinClive Brown
5. Mendelssohn and the OrchestraDavid Milsom
6. Mendelssohn as Composer/Conductor: Early Performances of PaulusSiegwart Reichwald
7. From Drawing Room to Theater: Performance Traditions of Mendelssohn's Stage WorksMonika Hennemann
8. Mendelssohn and the Performance of Handel's Vocal WorksRalf Wehner
9. From Notation to Edition to Performance: Issues in InterpretationJohn Michael Cooper
10. Mendelssohn's Tempo IndicationsSiegwart Reichwald
11. "For You See I Am the Eternal Objector": On Performing Mendelssohn's Music in TranslationJohn Michael Cooper
List of Contributors
Index

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Sheds new light on Mendelssohn as composer, conductor, and performer

About the Author

Siegwart Reichwald is Associate Professor of Music History at Converse College and conducts the Converse Symphony Orchestra. He is author of The Musical Genesis of Felix Mendelssohn's Paulus. He lives in Spartansburg, South Carolina.

Reviews

"... fresh insights into the practicalities of performing one of the most familiar, yet misunderstood figures of European classical music." R. Larry Todd, Duke University