Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures
Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures
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Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures by R Larry Todd
The concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty, have ranked amongst the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works which secured for Mendelssohn no small measure of his fame. After placing the overtures in the context of Mendelssohn's astonishing compositional development during the 1820s, the volume disentangles the complex history of their creation and considers in turn their style and formal structure, their contents as programme music, aspects of their orchestration and their reception and influence. All this is supported by a wealth of primary documents, including Mendelssohn's correspondence, memoirs of his friends, and nineteenth-century critical reviews.
'RLarry Todd's slim volume about Mendelssohn's overtures is packed through with fascinating detail …' Newsletter, Ipswich Arts Association
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780521407649 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521407648 |
| Title | Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures |
| Author | R Larry Todd |
| Series | Cambridge Music Handbooks |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1993-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 132 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |