Jeffrey S. Sposato
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) : illustrations, map, music
Language
English
Description
Sposato offers a revisionist account of Mendelssohn's relationship to his Jewish roots. He challenges the notion that the composer's identity was strongly informed by a sense of Jewishness & argues that for much of his career Mendelssohn consciously attempted to distance himself from his Jewish heritage.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
xix, 313 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, music ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847. But the century in between these events was critically important as well. During this period, Leipzig's church music enterprise was convulsed by repeated external threats-a growing middle class that viewed music as an object...