Mendelssohn: The Hebrides and Other Overtures (Cambridge Music Handbooks) by R. Larry Todd
Cambridge University Press | September 24, 1993 | English | ISBN: 0521404193, 0521407648 | 129 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Cambridge University Press | September 24, 1993 | English | ISBN: 0521404193, 0521407648 | 129 pages | PDF | 4 MB
The concert overtures A Midsummer Night's Dream, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, and The Hebrides (Fingal's Cave), conceived by Mendelssohn before the age of twenty, have ranked among the most enduring of the nineteenth-century orchestral repertoire. R. Larry Todd offers a historical, stylistic, and analytical guide to these three remarkable works. His clearly structured and accessible text is supported by a wealth of primary documents, including Mendelssohn's correspondence, memoirs of his friends, and nineteenth-century critical reviews.