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With its wide range of topics, this volume suggests a positive direction for the future of Mendelssohn scholarship; it is a welcome model for 19th-century musicology in general. -- C. Cai, emerita, Kenyon College, CHOICE A welcome contribution to the literature of Mendelssohn scholarship, Rethinking Mendelssohn brings together nearly a score of notable scholars, representing several generations, who offer new points of view on Mendelssohn's music and on its historical and biographical contexts. Beyond the keen insights these collaborators provide, their essays should also serve to launch a new phase for the ways Mendelssohn is dealt with in the future, and even more broadly as models for studies of other nineteenth-century music and musicians. -- Douglass Seaton, Florida State University Over the past two decades, Mendelssohn scholarship has focused on foundational work, such as reexaminations of biography and crucial primary sources. Rethinking Mendelssohn successfully builds on this foundation in innovative and exciting ways. It casts new light on those areas of Mendelssohn's oeuvre that have remained in the shadows, while exploring the composer's life and music in the context of recent discoveries and novel historical and theoretical frameworks. -- Jeffrey S. Sposato, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Over the past two decades, Mendelssohn scholarship has focused on foundational work, such as reexaminations of biography and crucial primary sources. Rethinking Mendelssohn successfully builds on this foundation in innovative and exciting ways. It casts new light on those areas of Mendelssohn's oeuvre that have remained in the shadows, while exploring the composer's life and music in the context of recent discoveries and novel historical and theoretical frameworks. * Jeffrey S. Sposato, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * A welcome contribution to the literature of Mendelssohn scholarship, Rethinking Mendelssohn brings together nearly a score of notable scholars, representing several generations, who offer new points of view on Mendelssohn's music and on its historical and biographical contexts. Beyond the keen insights these collaborators provide, their essays should also serve to launch a new phase for the ways Mendelssohn is dealt with in the future, and even more broadly as models for studies of other nineteenth-century music and musicians. * Douglass Seaton, Florida State University *

"""With its wide range of topics, this volume suggests a positive direction for the future of Mendelssohn scholarship; it is a welcome model for 19th-century musicology in general."" -- C. Cai, emerita, Kenyon College, CHOICE ""A welcome contribution to the literature of Mendelssohn scholarship, Rethinking Mendelssohn brings together nearly a score of notable scholars, representing several generations, who offer new points of view on Mendelssohn's music and on its historical and biographical contexts. Beyond the keen insights these collaborators provide, their essays should also serve to launch a new phase for the ways Mendelssohn is dealt with in the future, and even more broadly as models for studies of other nineteenth-century music and musicians."" -- Douglass Seaton, Florida State University ""Over the past two decades, Mendelssohn scholarship has focused on foundational work, such as reexaminations of biography and crucial primary sources. Rethinking Mendelssohn successfully builds on this foundation in innovative and exciting ways. It casts new light on those areas of Mendelssohn's oeuvre that have remained in the shadows, while exploring the composer's life and music in the context of recent discoveries and novel historical and theoretical frameworks."" -- Jeffrey S. Sposato, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"

A welcome contribution to the literature of Mendelssohn scholarship, Rethinking Mendelssohn brings together nearly a score of notable scholars, representing several generations, who offer new points of view on Mendelssohn's music and on its historical and biographical contexts. Beyond the keen insights these collaborators provide, their essays should also serve to launch a new phase for the ways Mendelssohn is dealt with in the future, and even more broadly as models for studies of other nineteenth-century music and musicians. -- Douglass Seaton, Florida State University Over the past two decades, Mendelssohn scholarship has focused on foundational work, such as reexaminations of biography and crucial primary sources. Rethinking Mendelssohn successfully builds on this foundation in innovative and exciting ways. It casts new light on those areas of Mendelssohn's oeuvre that have remained in the shadows, while exploring the composer's life and music in the context of recent discoveries and novel historical and theoretical frameworks. -- Jeffrey S. Sposato, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Benedict Taylor is Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests centre on nineteenth-century music, theory and analysis, and philosophy. Previous books include Mendelssohn, Time and Memory: The Romantic Conception of Cyclic Form (2011), The Melody of Time: Music and Temporality in the Romantic Era (2016), and Towards a Harmonic Grammar of Grieg's Late Piano Music (2017).

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