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Szonátaelv és romantika Felix Mendelssohn orgonaművében
Mendelssohn kiváló zongorista hírében állott, de hasonló érdeklődést mutatott az orgona iránt is. Zeneszerzői vénája már gyermekkorában megmutatkozott, első orgonaművét (d-moll prelúdium) tizenegy éves korában írta.
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Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and the Formation of the "Mendelssohnian" Style
<p>Fanny Hensel wrote much of Felix Mendelssohn's music. Or so goes the popular misconception. It is true that Felix did publish six of his sister's Lieder under his own name, in his Op. 8 and Op. 9, but there is no evidence that anything else he published was actually by Fanny. The perpetuation of …
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"Ch'io t'abbandono" by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Dramatic Image of the Education and Aptitudes of the Composer
… concert aria, "Ch'io t'abbandono," by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1825), is representative of the adolescent composer's developing musical aesthetic. In this study, Mendelssohn's education, work ethic, and perfectionism are revealed, paradoxically, as both the catalysts for the piece's …
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The Wings of Song Stilled: The Rise and Decline of Felix Mendelssohn's Lieder in London, 1829-1915
Felix Mendelssohn visited London for the first time in 1829, becoming an instant celebrity by virtue of his performances on benefit concerts and with the London Philharmonic Society, as well as his interactions with London’s musical establishment. His celebrity status persisted through the …
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The Flower of Human Perfection: Moses Mendelssohn's Defense of Rationalist Aesthetics
<p>This work is an analysis of Moses Mendelssohn's contributions to aesthetic rationalism, a tradition that arose in 18-century Germany. Rationalists held that aesthetic experience is primarily explained by the perfection of the object being considered, where perfection is a fundamental, rational …
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Doctoral thesis recital (Piano)
… violin and violoncello in D minor, op.49 / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
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Master's thesis recital (violin)
… quartet no. 3 in D major, op. 44, no. 1 / Felix Mendelssohn.
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Doctoral thesis recital (organ)
… Rorem -- Sonata in Dminor, op. 65 no. 6 / Felix Mendelssohn -- A meditation on "Draw us in the Spirit's tether" / Gerre Hancock -- Live wire / Iain Farrington.
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Doctoral thesis recital (organ)
… -- Andante in D major with variations / Felix Mendelssohn -- Mozart changes / Zsolt Gardonyi -- Prelude in C-sharp minor, op. 3 no. 2 / Sergei V. Rachmaninoff ; trans. Louis Vierne -- Trois impressions. [2], Clair de lune : op. 72, no. 2 / Sigfried Karg-Elert -- Sonata no. 1 in D minor, op. 42. …
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William Sterndale Bennett's Fantasia in Its Historical Context
… composers according to Bennett---Mozart and Mendelssohn---are also examined as plausible sources of inspiration, yet even allowing for his fervent admiration of the styles of these two composers, Bennett successfully achieved a new style and sound, as may be seen in his Fantasia, Op. 16.
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Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder: Subject and Textual Choices and Alterations of the Friedrich Rückert Poems, A Lecture Recital Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of F. Schubert, J. Offenbach, G. Finzi, and F. Mendelssohn
The bulk of scholarly research and discussion of Mahler's Kindertotenlieder deals with musical concerns and analyses. This study explores the significance of Mahler's selection and use of the poetry of Friedrich Rückert and, in particular, the personal significance of the textual treatment to …
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Perfection, History, and Harmonious Individuality: Herder's Ethical Thought, 1765-1791
… an exchange of letters between Herder and Moses Mendelssohn concerning the highest good, or vocation of man. I then look at how the ideas sketched in these earlier works were filled out in Abhandlung ber den Ursprung der Sprache (1772), Auch eine Philosophie der Geschichte zur Bildung der …
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Graded rings, modules and algebras.
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mathematics, 1970.
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Style in the Music of Arthur Sullivan: An Investigation
… Romantic German school of composers such as Mendelssohn, Schubert and Schumann. In the second half of the thesis, selected features of Sullivan’s style are analysed in detail as is the influence of prominent European composers such as Berlioz and Liszt. The final section is a close …
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Solo angel roles in vocal music : tracing the use of angel roles from 1600 to the present
… historicism, as well as the influence of Felix Mendelssohn helped to revive interest in sacred vocal music. The twentieth century witnessed a renewed fascination with angels, causing a resurgence in the amount of musical angel roles, especially towards the latter part of the century. The angel …
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A poetics of subjective resistance
… (b. 1961), Bhanu Kapil (b. 1968) and Anna Mendelssohn (1948-2009).This thesis contends that previous innovative poetics, while heavily invested in resistance, have focussed on poetry’s ability to destabilise conceptual and linguistic frameworks, leaving under-discussed the possibility of …
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The Music of J.S. Bach and the Art of Transcription - Selected Bach Transcriptions by Pianist-Composers
… settings. Although it is commonly believed that Mendelssohn "revived" Bach as a composer in the nineteenth century, it was rather the tradition of playing his music in modem concert settings with modem instruments that was rediscovered through the nineteenth century composers. Major composers …
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