Mendelssohn in Performance

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CONTENTS Foreword christopher hogwood vii 1. Mendelssohn’s Audience douglass seaton 1 2. Mendelssohn and the Piano kenneth hamilton 19 3. Mendelssohn and the Organ peter ward jones 41 4. The Performance of Mendelssohn’s Chamber and Solo Music for Violin clive brown 59 5. Mendelssohn and the Orchestra david milsom 85 6. Mendelssohn as Composer/Conductor: Early Performances of Paulus siegwart reichwald 101 7. From Drawing Room to Theater: Performance Traditions of Mendelssohn’s Stage Works monika hennemann 115 8. Mendelssohn and the Performance of Handel’sVocal Works ralf wehner 147 9. From Notation to Edition to Performance: Issues in Interpretation john michael cooper 171 10. Mendelssohn’s Tempo Indications siegwart reichwald 189 11. “ForYou See I Am the Eternal Objector”: On Performing Mendelssohn’s Music in Translation john michael cooper 207 List of Contributors 251 Index 253 ...