Anna Harwell Celenza, Katharina Uhde (eds.): Unity in Variety. Essays in Musicology for R. Larry Todd, Wien: Hollitzer Verlag, 2024, 356 pages, 17 x 24 cm, English, Hardcover
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Unity in Variety
Essays in Musicology for R. Larry Todd
This Festschrift celebrates the great Mendelssohn scholar R. Larry Todd, Arts & Sciences Professor at Duke University, whose dedication to, study of, and mentorship in 19th-century music has shaped two generations of musicological study.
Encompassing former/current students and colleagues, the contributing authors to this book investigate the life and work of the Mendelssohns, their circle, and issues of reception history; Beethoven and piano-related studies; and special musical relationships.
The book's title references a famous quote by Felix Mendelssohn: “The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.” It also acknowledges the thematic diversity of this volume and the unifying effect that Todd's outstanding monographs on Felix and Fanny have had on a variety of musicians and scholars.
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PREFACE
NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
I. THE LIFE AND WORK OF FELIX MENDELSSOHN
1 Singing without Words: Applying Mendelssohn’s Aesthetics
Douglass Seaton
2 Mendelssohn’s Fugue in E flat (R 23) and the echo of Beethoven
Benedict Taylor
3 A Brief Exploration of Mendelssohn’s Cellists
Marc Moskowitz
4 Heart’s Jewel: The “Sense” of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Op. 64
Robert Whitehouse Eshbach
5 Three Postludes to Mendelssohnian Research
Peter Ward Jones
II. MENDELSSOHN RECEPTION
6 Felix Mendelssohn’s English Countenance as Reflected
in London Publications of His Vocal Chamber Music to ca. 1850
John Michael Cooper
7 Mendelssohn and the Question of German Guilt
Leon Botstein
8 To the Tomb of Genius: Heinrich, Mendelssohn,
and American Musical Ambition
Marian Wilson Kimber
9 “That Mesmerizing Mendelssohn Tune”:
from Tin Pan Alley to the Silver Screen
Anna Harwell Celenza
III. FANNY MENDELSSOHN HENSEL
10 Chorale Transformation and Triumph in Felix Mendelssohn’s
Sinfonia VI and Fanny Hensel’s Das Jahr
Claire Fontijn
11 From Excavation to Analysis: The Lieder of Fanny Hensel
Marcia J. Citron
12 Comprehending Heine in Fanny Hensel’s “Schwanenlied”
Susan Youens
13 “Other” Mendelssohns: the Lied ohne Worte op. 19[b] no. 2
Angela R. Mace
IV. MENDELSSOHN’S CIRCLE
14 “The Woman for the New Era?”:
Johanna Kinkel’s Musical Exile in London
Monika Hennemann
15 Hearing Forward and Backward:
Clara Schumann’s Romance in B Minor als Denkmal und Ruine
Emily Shyr
16 Schumann Fantasies: Scene and Style in Robin Holloway’s Music
Philip Rupprecht
17 “My Last Hope in this Respect”: The Saga of the Swedish
Composer Wilhelm Bauck’s Correspondence with Felix Mendelssohn
Kirsten Santos Rutschman
18 Joseph Joachim in Oxford
Susan Wollenberg
19 “I felt as if I had found a diamond”: The Mozart-Enthusiast
Sir William Sterndale Bennett in the Context of His
Multifaceted Mozart Revival
Walter Kurt Kreyszig
V. BEETHOVEN
20 Beethoven’s “Tristan Chord”
Eric Wen
21 Enigma as Endgame: Reflections on Beethoven’s
Penchant for Outwitting Finality
Raymond Knapp
VI. PIANO-RELATED STUDIES
22 Ferdinand Hiller and Franz Liszt: A Friendship Built
at the Keyboard, Then Sundered and Never Healed
Ralph P. Locke and Jürgen Thym
23 A Study in Sycophancy: Gottfried Galston,
Ferruccio Busoni, and Late Romantic Pianism
Kenneth Hamilton
VII. AFTERTHOUGHTS: REFLECTIONS ON MUSICAL RELATIONSHIPS
24 When Breath Becomes Air:
Eternal Echoes in Seóirse Bodley’s “Wandrers Nachtlied”
Lorraine Byrne Bodley
25 “Becoming” Joseph Joachim, or, “Becoming”
Johannes Brahms, the Composer of Violin Concerto Op. 77 (1878)
Katharina Uhde
List of Figures, Music Examples and Tables
Index
