Price of Assimilation Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition

Name: Price of Assimilation Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition
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ISBN: 9780195386899

ISBN-10: 0195386892

ISBN-13: 9780195386899

Edition: 2009

Authors: Jeffrey S. Sposato

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Most scholars since World War Two have assumed that composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) maintained a strong attachment to Judaism throughout his lifetime. As these commentators have rightly noted, Mendelssohn was born Jewish and did not convert to Protestantism until age seven, his grandfather was the famous Jewish reformer and philosopher Moses Mendelssohn, and his music was banned by the Nazis, who clearly viewed him as a Jew. Such facts tell only part of the story, however. Through a mix of cultural analysis, biographical study, and a close examination of the libretto drafts of Mendelssohn's sacred works, The Price of Assimilation provides dramatic new answers to the…

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List price: $31.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/12/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 6.18" wide x 9.25" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English



Introduction



New Christians


The Mendelssohns and the Synagogue


Reinventing Mendelssohn


Mendelssohn's Evolving Relationship with Judaism



The St. Matthew Passion Revival


Judicious Cuts


The St. Matthew Passion Chorales and the Berlin Hymn Tradition


The St. Matthew Passion and the Theology of Friedrich Schleiermacher


Other Performances of the St. Matthew Passion



Moses


Christology, Anti-Semitism, and Moses


Mendelssohn, Marx, and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition



Paulus


A Textual History of Paulus


Paulus and the Influences of Carl Loewe, Louis Spohr, and Abraham Mendelssohn


Paulus and Philo-Heathenism


The Evolution of the Anti-Semitic Image in Paulus


Lessons from Paulus: A Reevaluation of Die erste Walpurgisnacht



Elias


A Textual History of Elias


Christology in Elias


The Jewish Image in Elias



Christus


The Genesis of Christus


The Jewish Image in Christus


The Universality of "Das Volk"


Conclusion: Matters of Perspective