This dissertation investigates trends in the critical reception of the music of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in the second and third quarters of the nineteenth century; more precisely, from the earliest reviews ofhis works to appear in the German musical press (1824) up to the controversy provoked by Wagner's 'Judaism in Music' (1869). The reasons for this fifty-year span are twofold: first, to consider the changing dynamics in critical reactions towards the composer in greater detail than a broader time frame would afford; and second, to avoid the historical determinism present in our existing picture, which assumes a direct link between the anti-Semitic dimension of Mendelssohn reception in the 185Os and the composer's treatment in the Thi...
This dissertation explores the influence that nineteenth-century tenets of Kunstreligion exerted on ...
This dissertation explores the influence that nineteenth-century tenets of Kunstreligion exerted on ...
The reputation of Mendelssohn's music has suffered more than that of most major composers of his era...
Using hermeneutic analyses of compositions Felix Mendelssohn wrote during the 1840s as points of dep...
In this dissertation, I analyze presentations of German composer Felix Mendelssohn in English music ...
This thesis is about the relationship of Felix Mendelssohn to the musical culture of nineteenth-cent...
This thesis is about the relationship of Felix Mendelssohn to the musical culture of nineteenth-cent...
German culture in the nineteenth century frequently granted music an exalted moral and quasi-religio...
Factors that helped consolidate music criticism in crucial ways--the concept of aesthetic autonomy, ...
Factors that helped consolidate music criticism in crucial ways--the concept of aesthetic autonomy, ...
German culture in the nineteenth century frequently granted music an exalted moral and quasi-religio...
The influence of anti-Semitism on the lives and careers of Jewish musicians within the social climat...
The influence of anti-Semitism on the lives and careers of Jewish musicians within the social climat...
German culture in the nineteenth century frequently granted music an exalted moral and quasi-religio...
This dissertation explores the influence that nineteenth-century tenets of Kunstreligion exerted on ...
This dissertation explores the influence that nineteenth-century tenets of Kunstreligion exerted on ...
This dissertation explores the influence that nineteenth-century tenets of Kunstreligion exerted on ...
The reputation of Mendelssohn's music has suffered more than that of most major composers of his era...
Using hermeneutic analyses of compositions Felix Mendelssohn wrote during the 1840s as points of dep...
In this dissertation, I analyze presentations of German composer Felix Mendelssohn in English music ...
This thesis is about the relationship of Felix Mendelssohn to the musical culture of nineteenth-cent...
This thesis is about the relationship of Felix Mendelssohn to the musical culture of nineteenth-cent...
German culture in the nineteenth century frequently granted music an exalted moral and quasi-religio...
Factors that helped consolidate music criticism in crucial ways--the concept of aesthetic autonomy, ...
Factors that helped consolidate music criticism in crucial ways--the concept of aesthetic autonomy, ...
German culture in the nineteenth century frequently granted music an exalted moral and quasi-religio...
The influence of anti-Semitism on the lives and careers of Jewish musicians within the social climat...
The influence of anti-Semitism on the lives and careers of Jewish musicians within the social climat...
German culture in the nineteenth century frequently granted music an exalted moral and quasi-religio...
This dissertation explores the influence that nineteenth-century tenets of Kunstreligion exerted on ...
This dissertation explores the influence that nineteenth-century tenets of Kunstreligion exerted on ...
This dissertation explores the influence that nineteenth-century tenets of Kunstreligion exerted on ...
The reputation of Mendelssohn's music has suffered more than that of most major composers of his era...