Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures by R Larry Todd

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

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ISBN 13	9780521407649
ISBN 10	0521407648
Titre	Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures
Auteur	R Larry Todd
Série	Cambridge Music Handbooks
État	Non disponible
Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	Cambridge University Press
Année de publication	1993-09-24
Nombre de pages	132
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