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New essays on the Mendelssohns and their circle, illuminating their lives, works, and influence. Perspectives on Mendelssohn presents newly commissioned essays by a group of distinguished international music historians on the Mendelssohns' life, work, and influence on their contemporaries. In four sections, the book addresses Felix Mendelssohn's works and their reception by contemporary critics, Fanny Mendelssohn's works, and the circle of composers and performers who were influenced by them both. Among the essays are Douglass Seaton's discussion of Felix Mendelssohn's aesthetics, Leon Botstein's examination of the shadow of ""German guilt"" that has colored Mendelssohn's critical reception, Anna Harwell Celenza's discussion of Mendelssohn's presence in popular American music and film during the early twentieth century, Marcia J. Citron's discussion of Fanny Mendelssohn's lieder, and Katharina Uhde’s essay on Joseph Joachim. Many of these essays feature close analysis of musical examples from key works by these composers. This volume will appeal to serious listeners, musicologists, and students of the history and reception of the Romantic musical era.

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Anna Harwell Celenza is a professor at Johns Hopkins University, where she holds a joint appointment in the Writing Seminars (Krieger School of Arts and Sciences) and the Musicology Department (Peabody Conservatory). She is the author of several scholarly books, including Jazz Italian Style: From Its Origins in New Orleans to Fascist Italy and Sinatra, and editor of Music and Human Flourishing. Katharina Uhde, a violinist-musicologist and specialist on nineteenth-century music, is Akademische Oberrätin at LMU Munich and an Associate Professor of Music at Valparaiso University, Indiana. She is the author of The Music of Joseph Joachim and the coauthor, with R. Larry Todd, of The Art of Musical Ciphers, Riddles, and Other Sundry Curiosities.

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