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Part I: Sources and source problems -- 'It seems to have been lost': on missing and recovered Mendelssohn sources / Ralf Wehner -- Editorial problems in Mendelssohn's organ preludes, op.37 / Pietro Zappalà -- Mendelssohn's two infelice arias: problems of sources and musical identity / John Michael Cooper -- Part II: Individual works -- Mendelssohn's first composition / Peter Ward Jones -- Programme of Mendelssohn's 'reformation' symphony, op.107 / Wolfgang Dinglinger -- Kindred spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die erste Walpurgisnacht / Julie D. Prandi -- Just how 'Scottish' is the 'Scottish' symphony? Thoughts on form and poetic content in Mendelssohn's Opus 56 / Thomas Schmidt-Beste -- Part III: Repertoires -- 'Indessen wollte ich mich Ihnen gern gefällig beweisen': on some occasional works, with an unknown composition by Mendelssohn / Christoph Hellmundt -- 'So kann ich es nicht componiren': Mendelssohn, opera, and the libretto problem / Monika Hennemann -- Mendelssohn's cycles of songs / Douglass Seaton -- Part IV: Felix and Fanny -- Similarities and differences in the artistic development of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in a family context: observations based on the early Berlin autograph volumes / Hans-Günter Klein -- On stylistic affinities in the works of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / R. Larry Todd -- Virtuoso texture in Fanny Hensel's piano music / Camilla Cai -- Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel: the search for perfection in opposing private and public worlds / Françoise Tillard -- Part V: Reception history -- Felix Mendelssohn and his place in the organ world of his time / Wm. A. Little -- Epigones of an epigone? Concerning Mendelssohn's string quartets - and the consequences / Friedhelm Krummacher -- Composer as other: gender and race in the biography of Felix Mendelssohn / Marion Wilson Kimber |
