- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Checklist of Mendelssohn's Life and Principal Works
- Biographical Notes
- 1 • Appearance and Manner
- 2 • Character and Personality
- 3 • Relationships with Women
- 4 • Writing
- 5 • Editing Music
- 6 • Drawing and Painting
- 7 • Moses Mendelssohn
- 8 • Abraham, Lea and Fanny Mendelssohn
- 9 • The Children's Education
- 10 • Social and Intellectual Environment
- 11 • Musical Activities
- 12 • Moses Mendelssohn's Legacy
- 13 • Abraham Mendelssohn's Dilemma
- 14 • Felix Mendelssohn's Faith
- 15 • The Family Name
- 16 • Early Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism
- 17 • The Singakademie
- 18 • Düsseldorf
- 19 • Leipzig
- 20 • The Genesis of the Leipzig Conservatorium
- 21 • Between Berlin and Leipzig, 1841–1844
- 22 • The Establishment of the Leipzig Conservatorium
- 23 • Generalmusikdirektor in Berlin
- 24 • The Final Years in Leipzig
- 25 • Keyboard Playing
- 26 • Improvisation
- 27 • Sight-Reading and Musical Memory
- 28 • String Playing
- 29 • Other Instruments
- 30 • Conducting
- 31 • Charles Edward Horsley
- 32 • Emil Naumann
- 33 • The Leipzig Conservatorium (Wasielewski, Rockstro, Meinardus)
- 34 • Joseph Joachim
- 35 • Aesthetics and Aspirations
- 36. • The Early Years, 1818–1829
- 37 • Die Hochzeit des Camacho
- 38 • Piano Music and Songs, 1825–1829
- 39 • The Initial Impact of Mendelssohn's Music in England
- 40 • The Years of Widening Recognition, 1831–1836
- 41 • The Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 25
- 42 • The Concert Overtures
- 43 • Songs without Words
- 44 • St Paul
- 45 • The Years of Mastery, 1836–1847
- 46 • General Appraisals During Mendelssohn's Lifetime
- 47 • Critical Responses to Individual Works and Genres, 1837–1847
- 48 • Obituaries and Contemporaneous General Assessments
- 49 • Critical Consensus in England during the 1850s
- 50 • Critical Dissension in Germany during the 1850s
- 51 • Das Judenthum in der Musik
- 52 • Changing Critical Perspectives
- Bibliography
- Index
• Generalmusikdirektor in Berlin
• Generalmusikdirektor in Berlin
- Chapter:
- 23 • Generalmusikdirektor in Berlin
- Source:
- A Portrait of Mendelssohn
- Author(s):
Clive Brown
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
Despite his initial skepticism, Felix Mendelssohn became Generalmusikdirektor in Berlin in 1843. He completed and directed the incidental music for Ein Sommernachtstraum and Athalie, as well as the choruses in Oedipus, for King Friedrich Wilhelm's performances at Potsdam. He also agreed to undertake two oratorio performances and a series of orchestral concerts during the winter, along with direct choral and orchestral performances in the cathedral on festival days, for which he would also supply compositions. Mendelssohn and Wilhelm Taubert conducted alternate concerts that commenced in November. However, Mendelssohn eventually withdrew from his duties at the cathedral. His residual duties in Berlin was limited to conducting the performances of Oedipus Coloneus and Athalie in 1846.
Keywords: music, Generalmusikdirektor, Berlin, Ein Sommernachtstraum, Athalie, concerts, cathedral, Oedipus Coloneus
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- A Checklist of Mendelssohn's Life and Principal Works
- Biographical Notes
- 1 • Appearance and Manner
- 2 • Character and Personality
- 3 • Relationships with Women
- 4 • Writing
- 5 • Editing Music
- 6 • Drawing and Painting
- 7 • Moses Mendelssohn
- 8 • Abraham, Lea and Fanny Mendelssohn
- 9 • The Children's Education
- 10 • Social and Intellectual Environment
- 11 • Musical Activities
- 12 • Moses Mendelssohn's Legacy
- 13 • Abraham Mendelssohn's Dilemma
- 14 • Felix Mendelssohn's Faith
- 15 • The Family Name
- 16 • Early Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitism
- 17 • The Singakademie
- 18 • Düsseldorf
- 19 • Leipzig
- 20 • The Genesis of the Leipzig Conservatorium
- 21 • Between Berlin and Leipzig, 1841–1844
- 22 • The Establishment of the Leipzig Conservatorium
- 23 • Generalmusikdirektor in Berlin
- 24 • The Final Years in Leipzig
- 25 • Keyboard Playing
- 26 • Improvisation
- 27 • Sight-Reading and Musical Memory
- 28 • String Playing
- 29 • Other Instruments
- 30 • Conducting
- 31 • Charles Edward Horsley
- 32 • Emil Naumann
- 33 • The Leipzig Conservatorium (Wasielewski, Rockstro, Meinardus)
- 34 • Joseph Joachim
- 35 • Aesthetics and Aspirations
- 36. • The Early Years, 1818–1829
- 37 • Die Hochzeit des Camacho
- 38 • Piano Music and Songs, 1825–1829
- 39 • The Initial Impact of Mendelssohn's Music in England
- 40 • The Years of Widening Recognition, 1831–1836
- 41 • The Piano Concerto in G Minor, Op. 25
- 42 • The Concert Overtures
- 43 • Songs without Words
- 44 • St Paul
- 45 • The Years of Mastery, 1836–1847
- 46 • General Appraisals During Mendelssohn's Lifetime
- 47 • Critical Responses to Individual Works and Genres, 1837–1847
- 48 • Obituaries and Contemporaneous General Assessments
- 49 • Critical Consensus in England during the 1850s
- 50 • Critical Dissension in Germany during the 1850s
- 51 • Das Judenthum in der Musik
- 52 • Changing Critical Perspectives
- Bibliography
- Index
