Mendelssohn : "a second Elijah" / Schima Kaufman.
| Author/creator | Kaufman, Schima |
| Format | Book |
| Edition | New edition. |
| Publication Info | New York : Tudor Publishing Company, 1936. |
| Description | xiv, 353 pages : frontispiece, 1 illustration (music), plates, portraits, facsimiles (music) ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Beginnings -- Parents -- A genius -- Conversion -- The sage of Weimar -- L.v.g.G. -- The defender of Beethoven -- Judgment of Paris -- Leipziger Strasse no. 3 -- A Midsummer Night's Dream -- A debacle -- The St. Matthew Passion: an actor and a Jew -- London success -- An accident -- "Return from abroad" -- The anarchic Heine -- Goethe revisited: "The spring of 1775" -- Further wanderings: an opera libretto -- Immortality -- Visions -- The stoning of Stephen -- The Lower Rhine Festival -- Maria Malibran -- A Salto Mortale -- Res severa est verum gaudium -- "Wer ein holdes weib errungen" -- Sturm und Drang -- "The only comfortable house in England" -- Transition -- Night song, opus 71 -- His place in music. |
| Abstract | Last of the Classicists, first of the Romanticists and a bridge uniting both, the life of Felix Mendelssohn spans the most fascinating and crowded period in all music. He was eighteen when Beethoven died, yet he lived to see the rising stars of Schumann and Wagner outshine his own in brilliant luminosity. Despite the shielded existence of a millionaire's son, Mendelssohn's life was not the one of unsullied happiness legendry would have us believe. He suffered to an extraordinary extent from the austerity of his father's domination until the age of twenty-five; he waged a twenty years' war with Berlin, a feud that was half imaginary, half real, but viable enough to produce a necrosis on his soaring soul; he reached vainly into the mirage which was never to grant him the eagerly sought perfect libretto, while Heine who gave Wagner the story of "Flying Dutchman" was at his elbow; he lapsed into the error of self-righteousness. Yet withal a passionate, loveable genius whose story embraces the art, intrigue and politics of Germany, France and England in the first half of the nineteenth century. |
| Bibliography note | List of Mendelssohn's published works taken from the Thematic catalogue published by Messrs. Breitkopf & Härtel in 1882, with additions and corrections from other sources: pages 324-340. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-343) and index. |
| LCCN | 34032350 |
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