Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn in Context by Thomas Schmidt
Brimming with fresh insights, this volume offers a comprehensive overview of the personal, cultural, intellectual, professional, political and religious contexts in which immensely gifted brother and sister Fanny Hensel (n e Mendelssohn) and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy lived and worked. Based on the latest research, it explores nineteenth-century musical culture from different yet complementary perspectives, including gender roles, private vs public music-making, cultural institutions, and reception history. Thematically organised, concise chapters cover a broad range of topics from family, friends and colleagues, to poetry, art and aesthetics, foreign travel, celebrity and legacy. With contributions from a host of Mendelssohn and Hensel experts as well as leading scholars from disciplines beyond musicology it sheds new light on the environments in which the Mendelssohns moved, promoting a deeper understanding their music.-
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Thomas Schmidt is Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and Professor of Music at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Cambridge Introduction to the Sonata (2011), The Motet Around 1500 (2012) and The Production and Reading of Music Sources, 1480–1530 (2018). He has edited six volumes for the Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (LMA) and has been its co-editor-in-chief since 2022. Benedict Taylor is Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include Mendelssohn, Time and Memory (Cambridge, 2011), The Melody of Time (2016), Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann (Cambridge, 2022), and Hensel: String Quartet in E flat (Cambridge 2023). He is general editor of Cambridge University Press's Music in Context series and edited the Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism (2021).
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| ISBN 13 | 9781009172752 |
| ISBN 10 | 1009172751 |
| Title | Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn in Context |
| Author | Thomas Schmidt |
| Series | Composers In Context |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2025-12-31 |
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