R. Larry Todd | Scholars@Duke

R. Larry Todd
Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Music

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2005
Professor of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1989

Contact Information

081 Mary Duke Biddle, Durham, NC 27708
Box 90665, Durham, NC 27708-0665
r.todd@duke.edu (919) 660-3300
Beethoven Cello Sonata in A, Op. 69, mvts III-IV

Background
Education, Training, & Certifications
- Ph.D., Yale University 1979
- M.Phil., Yale University 1976
- B.A., Yale University 1974
Previous Appointments & Affiliations
- Director of Graduate Studies in Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 2019 - 2020
- Chairman, Department of Music, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1996 - 2002
- Associate Professor with Tenure, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1981 - 1989
- Associate Professor, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1981
- Assistant Professor, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1979 - 1981
- Instructor, University, Music, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1978 - 1979
Recognition
In the News
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Awards & Honors
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Books
  - Todd, R. L., and Marc Moskovitz. Beethoven's Cello: Five Revolutionary Sonatas and Their World. Boydell Press, 2017.
  - Todd, R. L. Mendelssohn essays, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203940068.
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  - Todd, R. L. Preface to the first edition, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315024479.
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  - Todd, R. L. Nineteenth-century piano music, Second edition, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315024479.
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  - Todd, R. L. Preface to the second edition, 2013. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315024479.
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  - Todd, R. L. Mendelssohn and His World, 2012.
  - Todd, R. L. Fanny Hensel: The Other Mendelssohn, 2011. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195180800.001.0001.
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  - Todd, R Larry. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben, seine Musik. Carus-Verlag/Philipp Reclam, 2008.
  - RL Todd, F., ed. Nineteenth-Century Piano Music. N.Y.: Routledge, 2004.
  - Todd, R. L. Mendelssohn: A Life in Music. NY., Oxford University Press, 2003.
  - Todd, R Larry, ed. Schumann and His World. Princeton University Press, 1994.
  - Todd, R. L. Mendelssohn, "The Hebrides" and Other Overtures. Cambridge University Press, 1993.
  - Todd, R Larry, ed. Mendelssohn Studies. Cambridge University Press, 1992.
  - Todd, R Larry, and Peter Williams, eds. Perspectives on Mozart Performance. Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  - Todd, R. The Musical Art: An Introduction to Western Music. Belmont: Wadsworth, 1990.
  - Todd, R Larry, and Jon W. Finson, eds. Mendelssohn and Schumann Essays: Perspectives on Their Music and Its Context. Duke University Press, 1984.
  - Todd, R. Mendelssohn’s Musical Education: A Study and Edition of His Exercises in Composition. Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- Academic Articles
  - Todd, R Larry. “Rethinking Mendelssohn. Ed. by Benedict Taylor.” Music and Letters 102, no. 2 (December 27, 2021): 377–81. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcab047.
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  - Todd, R Larry. “Rebecca Cypess and Nancy Sinkoff, eds, Sara Levy's World: Gender, Judaism, and the Bach Tradition in Enlightenment Berlin (Rochester: University of Rochester Press, 2018), x + 292 pp. $99.00.” Nineteenth Century Music Review 17, no. 3 (December 2020): 477–81. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1479409819000429.
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  - Todd, R Larry. “Leipzig after Bach: Church & Concert Life in a German City.” Bach 50, no. 2 (2019): 308–13.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Introduction.” Nineteenth Century Music Review 15, no. 3 (December 1, 2018): 325–28. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479409818000320.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Late Brahms, Ancient Modes.” Nineteenth Century Music Review 15, no. 3 (December 1, 2018): 421–42. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479409818000319.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Preface.” Mendelssohn and His World 9781400831623 (January 16, 2012): ix–xi. https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400831623.ix.
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  - Todd, R. L. “6 short articles for Classic FM Magazine,” April 2011.
  - Todd, R Larry. “Mendelssohn, Briefe, 2 vols. (Kassel, Bärenreiter) and Ralf Wehner, Felix Mendelsohn Bartholdy: Thematisch-systematisches Verzeichnis der musikalischen Werke (Leipzig, Brietkopf & Härtel).” 19th Century Music Reivew 7 (2011): 135–42.
  - Todd, R. L. “Fanny Hensel's Musik für die Toten der Cholera-Epidemie.” Dialogues and Extensions, American Symphony Orchestra, November 2010.
  - Cooper, J. M., and R. L. Todd. “Foreword: In honor of Peter Ward Jones.” Journal of Musicological Research 29, no. 2–3 (April 1, 2010): 85. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411896.2010.482505.
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  - Todd, R. L. “"Robert Schumann and the Art of Musical Composition".” Clavier Companion 2, no. 3 (2010): 26–31.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Mendelssohn's Lieder ohne Worte and the Limits of Musical Expression".” Bulletin of Musashino Academia Musicae, Tokyo 41 (2010): 1–25.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Mendelssohn's Third Piano Concerto, a Tale of Two Concertos".” Bulletin of Musashino Academia Musicae, Tokyo, 2010, 27–52.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Mendelssohn Reception and Us: Reflections on the Bicentenary".” Ad Parnassum 7 (2010): 7–36.
  - Todd and Cooper, RL and Michael. “"'With True Esteem and Friendship': The Correspondence of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and Louis Spohr".” Journal of Musicological Research 29, no. 2–3 (2010): 171–259.
  - Todd, R Larry. “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Thematically Systematic List of Musical Works (MWV).” Nineteenth Century Music Review 7, no. 2 (2010): 135–42.
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  - Todd, R Larry. “All letters, based on Rudolf Elvers scale collection edited by Helmut Loos and William Seidel, Volume 1: 1816 to June 1830, vol 2, July 1830 to July 1832.” Nineteenth Century Music Review 7, no. 2 (2010): 135–42.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Fanny Hensels Chorwerke. By Stefan Wolitz.” Music and Letters 90, no. 4 (November 1, 2009): 689–91. https://doi.org/10.1093/ml/gcp025.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn and Us: Reflections on the Bicentenary.” Ad Parnassum 7 (October 2009): 7–35.
  - Todd, R Larry, and Angela R. Mace. “Mendelssohn and the Free Chorale.” Choral Journal 49, no. 9 (March 2009): 49.-69.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Mache mich ein wenig Lärm vor".” Die Welt Am Sonntag, February 2009, Kultur62–63.
  - Todd, R. L. “The Masterpiece that Never Was: Reconstructing Mendelssohn's Piano Concerto No. 3.” Piano Journal, 2009, 15–19.
  - Todd, R. L. “Stefan Wolitz, Fanny Hensels Chorwerke (Tutzing, 2007).” Music & Letters 90 (2009), 689 91, 2009.
  - Todd, R Larry. “Die erste Walpurgisnacht: Ballade von Goethe für Chor und Orchester, op. 60 (review).” Notes 64, no. 2 (2007): 358–60. https://doi.org/10.1353/not.2007.0147.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Florestan Trio (Hyperion Label) recording of the Mendelssohn Piano Trios.” Nineteenth Century Music Review, 2007.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Die erste Walpurgisnacht, facsimile of the autograph piano-vocal score, ed. Hiromi Hoshino, Tokyo, 2005.” Music Library Association Notes, 2007.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Ouvertüre in C, Op. 101, Bärenreiter Urtext, Christopher Hogwood, ed., Kassel, 2003.” Nineteenth Century Music Review, 2007.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Fanny Hensel's Op. 6 No. 1 and the Art of Musical Reminiscence".” Nineteenth Century Music Review 4, no. 2 (2007).
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn's Legacy: A Performers' Symposium, with Andras Schiff, Roberto Prosseda, Frederic Chiu, Anton Kuerti, Martin Jones.” Piano, October 2005, 20–29.
  - Todd, R. L. “Hidden Treasures [bicentenary of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel].” Piano, 2005, 13–14.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn the Musical Polymath.” Piano Today, 2005, 7,24.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn's Legacy: A Performer's Symposium.” Piano, 2005, 20–29.
  - Todd, R. L. “Motives for allusion: Context and contem in ninefeenth-century music.” Journal of Musicological Research 24, no. 1 (2005): 71–75.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Die schöne Melusine,” 2003.
  - Todd, R. L. “Reynolds, Motives for Allusion,” 2003.
  - Todd, Evans, and Olson, R. L. D. J. “A Welsh Collection of Mendelssohniana: Letters at Aberystwyth.” Current Musicology 65 (2001): 116–40.
  - Todd, R Larry. “Missa sancta Nr. 1 Es-Dur (WeV A.2) mit Offertorium "Gloria et honore" (WeV A.3); Missa sancta Nr. 2 G-Dur (WeV A.5) mit Offertorium "In die solemnitatis" (WeV A.4) (review).” Notes 57, no. 4 (2001): 999–1001. https://doi.org/10.1353/not.2001.0116.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Weber, C. M. von, Sämtliche Werke: Kirchenmusik.” Music Library Association Notes 57 (2001): 999–10001.
  - Todd, R Larry, Niels W. Gade, Niels Bo Foltmann, and Finn Egeland Hansen. “Symphony No. 4, Op. 20.” Notes 54, no. 4 (June 1998): 982–982. https://doi.org/10.2307/900096.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Gade, Niels, Werke.” Music Library Association Notes 54/4, June 1996, 982–84.
  - Todd, R Larry, Felix Mendelssohn, Michael Pilkington, and Christian Rudolf Riedel. “Elijah: An Oratorio for Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass Soli, SATB, Orchestra and Organ, Opus 70. Vocal Score.” Notes 50, no. 2 (December 1993): 745–745. https://doi.org/10.2307/898515.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Marston, Nicholas, Schumann: Fantasie Op. 17.” Times Literary Supplement, June 1993, 19–19.
  - TODD, R. L. “SCHUMANN, 'FANTASIE OP.17' - MARSTON,N.” Tls the Times Literary Supplement, no. 4706 (1993): 19–19.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Elijah and Der 114. Psalm (London, 1990 and Wiesbaden, 1991).” Music Library Association Notes 50 (1993): 745–46.
  - Todd, R. L. “Introduction to F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, a collection of the composer’s watercolors and drawings.” No. 7 in the Art Series of the Atelier Mujinkan in Japanese and English, 1992.
  - Todd, R. L. “Ward Jones, Peter, Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library, Vol. III, Tutzing, 1989.” Music & Letters 73 (1992): 125–26.
  - Todd, R Larry, and Christa Jost. “Mendelssohns Lieder ohne Worte.” Notes 48, no. 2 (December 1991): 489–489. https://doi.org/10.2307/942045.
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  - Todd, R Larry. “The London Pianoforte School 1766-1860: Clementi, Dussek, Cogan, Cramer, Field, Pinto, Sterndale Bennett, and Other Masters of the Pianoforte . Nicholas Temperley .” Journal of the American Musicological Society 44, no. 1 (April 1991): 128–36. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.1991.44.1.03a00060.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Little, Wm. A., Mendelssohn Organ Works, 5 vols. (London, 1987-1990).” Organ Yearbook 22 (1991): 169–73.
  - Todd, R. L. “Jost, Christa, ed., Mendelssohns Lieder ohne Worte (Tutzing, 1988).” Music Library Association Notes 47 (1991): 489–489.
  - Todd, R. L. “Temperley, Nicholas, ed., The London Pianoforte School, 20 vols. (NY, 1984-1987).” Journal of the American Musicological Society 44 (1991): 128–36.
  - Todd, R. L. “From the Composer’s Workshop: Two Little-Known Fugues by Mendelssohn.” The Musical Times 131 (1990): 183–87.
  - Todd, R. L. “A Mendelssohn Miscellany.” Music & Letters 71 (1990): 52–63.
  - Todd, R. L. “Finson, Jon, Robert Schumann and the Study of Orchestral Composition: The Genesis of the First Symphony Op. 38, Oxford, 1990.” Musical Times 130 (1989): 485–485.
  - Todd, R. L. “Samson, J., ed., Chopin Studies, Cambridge, 1988.” Musical Times 130 (1989): 281–82.
  - Todd, R. L. “Pape, M., Mendelssohns Leipziger Orgelkonzert 1840, Wiesbaden, 1988.” Musical Times 130 (1989): 374–374.
  - Todd, R. L. “Citron, M., ed., The Letters of Fanny Hensel to Felix Mendelssohn (NY, 1987).” Music & Letters 70 (1989): 554–56.
  - Todd, R Larry. “The "Unwelcome Guest" Regaled: Franz Liszt and the Augmented Traid.” 19th Century Music 12, no. 2 (October 1988): 93–115. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.1988.12.2.02a00010.
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  - Todd, R Larry, and Clive Brown. “Louis Spohr: A Critical Biography.” Notes 42, no. 3 (March 1986): 540–540. https://doi.org/10.2307/897336.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Brown, Clive, Louis Spohr: A Critical Biography, Cambridge, 1984.” Music Library Association Notes 42 (1986): 340–41.
  - Todd, R. L. “Crum, Margaret, Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library, Vol. II, Tutzing, 1983.” Music & Letters 65 (1984): 354–55.
  - Todd, R. L. “Schuhmacher, G., ed., Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Darmstadt, 1982.” Music & Letters 65 (1984): 99–103.
  - Todd, Parkins, R. L. R. “Mendelssohn’s Fugue in F Minor: A Discarded Movement of the First Organ Sonata.” The Organ Yearbook XIV (1983): 61–77.
  - Todd, R. L. “A Passion Cantata by Mendelssohn.” American Choral Review 25 (1983): 1–17.
  - TODD, R. L. “A PASSION CANTATA BY MENDELSSOHN.” American Choral Review 25, no. 1 (1983): 3–17.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Report of the First International Mendelssohn-Schumann Conference.” Music Review 43 (1982): 135–36.
  - TODD, R L. A. R. R. Y. “An Unfinished Piano Concerto by Mendelssohn.” The Musical Quarterly LXVIII, no. 1 (1982): 80–101. https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/lxviii.1.80.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Crum, Margaret, Catalogue of the Mendelssohn Papers in the Bodleian Library, Vol. I, Tutzing, 1980.” Music & Letters 63 (1982): 319–20.
  - Todd, R Larry. “Liszt, Fantasy and Fugue for Organ on "Ad nos, ad salutarem undam".” 19th Century Music 4, no. 3 (April 1981): 250–61. https://doi.org/10.1525/ncm.1981.4.3.02a00060.
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  - TODD, R. L. “MENDELSSOHN CANTATAS AND SACRED SONGS + VOKAL-UND-INSTRUMENTAL-ENSEMBLE-MARBURG, BECK,R - MUSICAPHON-BM-30-SL-1336.” Musical Quarterly 67, no. 3 (1981): 445–51.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Heimkehr aus der Fremde EMI IC 065-30 741.” Music Review 42 (1981): 80–81.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Psaumes (Erato STU 71101 and 7123) and Kantaten und geistliche Lieder (Musicophon BM 30 SL 1336).” The Musical Quarterly 67 (1981): 445–51.
  - Todd, R. L. “A Sonata by Mendelssohn.” Piano Quarterly 29 (1980): 30–41.
  - Todd, R. L. “An Unfinished Symphony by Mendelssohn.” Music & Letters 61 (1980): 293–309.
  - Todd, R. L. “Haydn and the Sturm und Drang: A Revaluation.” Music Review 41 (1980): 172–96.
  - TODD, R L. A. R. R. Y. “The Genesis of Webern's Opus 32.” The Musical Quarterly LXVI, no. 4 (1980): 581–91. https://doi.org/10.1093/mq/lxvi.4.581.
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  - Todd, R Larry, and Friedhelm Krummacher. “Mendelssohn-der Komponist: Studien zur Kammermusik fur Streicher.” Notes 36, no. 1 (September 1979): 95–95. https://doi.org/10.2307/939921.
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  - Todd, R. L. “Of Sea Gulls and Counterpoint: The Early Version of Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture.” 19th Century Music 2 (1979): 197–213.
  - Todd, R. L. “Krummacher, Friedhelm, Mendelssohn–der Komponist: Studien zur Kammermusik für Streicher, Munic, 1978.” Music Library Association Notes 36 (1979): 95–96.
  - Todd, R. L. “Retrograde, Inversion, Retrograde-Inversion and Related Techniques in the Masses of Obrecht.” The Musical Quarterly 64 (1978): 50–78.
- Book Sections
  - Todd, R. L. “Fanny hensel’s lieder (ohne worte) and the boundaries of song: The curious case of the lied in d major, op. 8, no. 3.” In The Songs of Fanny Hensel, 217–38, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190919566.003.0012.
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  - Todd, R. L. “From the Church to the Concert Hall: J.S. Bach, Mendelssohn, and the Imaginary Chorale.” In Theology, Music, and Modernity: Struggles for Freedom, 109–28, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198846550.003.0006.
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  - Todd, R Larry. “"Mendelssohnian Allusions in the Early Piano Works of William Sterndale Bennett".” In The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture, edited by Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg, 101–18. Ashgate, 2007.
  - Todd, R Larry. “"Die Matthäus-Passion–Widerhall und Wirkung in Mendelssohns Musik".” In Zu Groß, Zu Unerreichbar: Bach-Rezeption Im Zeitalter Mendelssohn Und Schumanns, edited by Anselm Hartinger, Christoph Wolff, and Peter Wollny, 79–97. Breitkopf & Haetel, 2007.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn entry.” In The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology, edited by J. R. Watson. Canterbury Press, 2005.
  - Todd, R. “"Humboldt, Mendelssohn and Musical Unity".” In Conference Proceedings of Alexander von Humboldt: From the Americas to the Cosmos, CUNY Graduate Center (Www.Humboldt/Conference.Org/), 3–15, 2005.
  - Todd, R. “"Nineteenth-Century Concertos for Strings and Winds".” In Cambridge Companion to the Concerto, edited by Simon Keefe, 118–38. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Zu Mendelssohns ’Allegro brilliant’ op. 92: ein Duo für Clara Schumann".” In Dem Stolz Und Der Zierde Unserer Stadt: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Und Leipzig, edited by William Seidel, 249–60, 2004.
  - Todd, R. L. “"On Mendelssohn’s Sacred Music, Real and Imaginary".” In Cambridge Mendelssohn Companion, edited by Peter Mercer-Taylor, 167–88. Cambridge Univ. Press, 2004.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Ein wenig still und scheu: Clara Wieck/Schumann as Colleague of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy".” In Schumanniana Nova: Festschrift Gerd Nauhaus Zum 60. Geburtstag, edited by Bernhard R. Appel, Ute Bar, and Matthias Wendt, 767–84. Sinzig, Studio Verlag, 2002.
  - Todd, R. L. “"On Stylistic Affinities between the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy".” In The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History, edited by J Michael Cooper, 245–61. N. Y., Oxford University Press, 2002.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Mendelssohn".” In New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Ed, 389–424. London: Macmillan, 2001.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Overture to Elijah, Arrangement for Piano Duet (1847)".” In Music History from Primary Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives, edited by Jon Newsom and Alfred Mann, 313–20. Washington, Library of Congress, 2000.
  - Todd, R. L. “Three articles on Opp. 1, 9, and 119.” In The Complete Brahms, edited by Leon Botstein, 156–97. Norton, 1999.
  - Botstein, Leon. “Mendelssohn, Paulus.” In Leon Botstein, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus. Arabesque, 1998.
  - Gardiner, John Eliot. “Mendelssohn, Symphonies Nos. 4 (Original and Revised Versions) and 5.” In John Eliot Gardiner and the Vienna Philharmonic. DGG, 1998.
  - Todd, R. L. “"The Chamber Music of Mendelssohn".” In 19th-Century Chamber Music, edited by Stephen Hefling, 170–205. New York: Schirmer Books, Macmillan, 1998.
  - Todd, R. L. “"On the Visual in Mendelssohn’s Music".” In Cari Amici: Festschrift 25 Jahre Carus-Verlag, edited by B. Mohn and H. Ryschawy, 115–24. Stuttgart, 1997.
  - Todd, R. L. “"On Mendelssohn’s Operatic Destiny: Die Lorelei Reconsidered".” In Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Kongreß-Bericht Berlin 1994, edited by C. M. Schmidt, 113–40. Wiesbaden, Breitkopf & Haertel, 1997.
  - Stone, Sayard, and Jennifer Eley. “Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto in E minor, Robert Schumann, Konzertsatz for piano and orchestra, Clara Schumann, Piano Sonata in G minor.” In Jennifer Eley, Sayard Stone, English Chamber Orchestra. Koch International, 1996.
  - Todd, R. “"Mendelssohn".” In Nineteenth-Century Symphony, edited by Kern Holoman, 78–107. New York: Schirmer Books, Macmillan, 1996.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Mendelssohn: Composer of the Month".” In BBC Music Magazine, 39–42, 1995.
  - Todd, R. L. “"New Light on Mendelssohn’s Freie Phantasie (1840)".” In Literary and Musical Notes: Wm. A. Little Festschrift, edited by G. C. Orth, 205–18. Bern, Peter Lang, 1995.
  - Todd, R. L. “"On Quotation in Schumann’s Music".” In Schumann and His World, 80–112, 1994.
  - Orchestra, Orpheus Chamber. “Mendelssohn, String Symphonies Nos. 8, 9, and 10.” In Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. DGG, 1993.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Strauss before Liszt and Wagner: Some Observations".” In Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Works, edited by Bryan Gilliam, 3–40. Duke University Press, 1992.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Me voilà perruqué: Mendelssohn’s Six Preludes and Fugues Op. 35 Reconsidered".” In Mendelssohn Studies, 162–99, 1992.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Gerade das Lied wie es dasteht: On Text and Meaning in Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte".” In Musical Humanism and Its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Claude Palisca, edited by Nancy K. Baker, 355–79. Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press, 1992.
  - Todd, R. L. “"The Unfinished Mendelssohn".” In Mendelssohn and His World, 158–84, 1992.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Mendelssohn".” In St. James Guide to Biography, 527–29. Chicago: St. James Press, 1991.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Mozart according to Mendelssohn: A Contribution to Rezeptionsgeschichte".” In Perspectives on Mozart Performance, 158–203, 1991.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Piano Music Reformed: The Case of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy".” In Nineteenth-Century Piano Music, 178–220, 1990.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Franz Liszt, Carl Friedrich Weitzmann and the Augmented Triad".” In The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality, edited by W. Kinderman and H. Krebs, 153–77. University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
  - Mintz, Shlomo, and Paul Ostrovsky. “Mendelssohn, Violin Sonatas.” In Schlomo Mintz and Paul Ostrovsky. DGG, 1987.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Orchestral Texture and the Art of Orchestration".” In The Orchestra: Origins and Transformations, edited by Joan Peyser, 191–226. New York: Scribner’s, 1986.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy".” In The New Grove Early Romantic Masters 2, 199–301. London: Macmillan, 1985.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Mendelssohn".” In Ch. 4 of The Heritage of Music, Vol. 5, edited by Ludwig Finscher, 183–94. Oxford University Press, 1984.
  - Todd, R. L. “"Mendelssohn’s Ossianic Manner, with a New Source—On Lena’s Gloomy Heath".” In Mendelssohn and Schumann Essays, 137–83, 1984.
- Other Articles
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Oedipus in Kolonos, Frieder Bernius, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart, Carus Verlag, 2209,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Antigone, Op. 55, Frieder Bernius, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Klassische Philharmonie Stuttgart, Carus Verlag, 2009,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Sebastian Knauer, Pure Mendelssohn, Berlin Classics, Edel Kultur, 2008,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Complete String Quartets, Emerson String Quartet, Deutsche Grammophon, 2005,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Piano Trios, The Atlantis Trio, Musica Omnia, 2001,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Murray Perahia, Songs without Words (Mendelssohn, Schubert/Liszt, Busoi), Sony Classical, 1999,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Paulus, Leon Botstein, Royal Scottish National Orchestra & Chorus, Arabesque, 1998,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Symphonies Nos. 4 (Original and Revised Versions) and 5, John Eliot Gardiner and the Vienna Philharmonic, DGG, 1998,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto in E minor, Robert Schumann, Konzerstatz for piano and orchestra, Clara Schumann, Piano Sonata in G minor, Jennifer Eley, Sayard Stone, English Chamber Orchestra, Koch International, 1996,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, String Symphonies Nos. 8, 9, and 10, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, DGG, 1993,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Violin Sonatas, Shlomo Mintz and Paul Ostrovsky, DGG, 1987,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, The Complete Solo Piano Music, vol. 2, Howard Shelley, Hyperion, 2014,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn Discoveries: Rare Piano Works, Roberto Prosseda, Decca, 2005,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Daniel Hope,, Mendelssohn, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Thomas Hengelbrock, DGG, 2007,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Oratorien, Kammerchor Stuttgart, Frieder Bernius, Carus Verlag, 2013,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Schauspielmusiken, Carus Verlag, 2014,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, The Piano Trios, Wu Han, Philip Setzer, David Finckel, Artist Led, 2011,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, Violin Concertos, Alina Ibragimova, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Vladimir Jurowski, Hyperion, 2012,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Felix Mendelssohn, Piano Trio Op. 49, Piano Sextet Op. 110, The Atlantis Trio & Ensemble, Musica Omnia, 2006,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Lieder mit und ohne Worte, Thmas Michael Allen, Reinild Mees, Ars Produktion, 2009,” n.d.
  - Todd, R. L. “Mendelssohn, The Complete Solo Piano Music, vol. 1, Howard Shellley, Hyperion, 2013,” n.d.
- Scholarly Editions
  - Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. “Lieder ohne Worte.” Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel, 2009.
  - Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. “Konzert in e-Moll für Klavier und Orchester.” Bärenreiter Verlag, 2008.
  - Mendelssohn Bartholldy, F. “Konzert in e-Moll für Violine und Orchester, Op. 64, first and second versions.” Bärenreiter Verlag, Kassel, 2005.
  - Hensel, Fanny. “Piano Music.” Dover Publications, New York, 2004.
  - Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. “Paulus (St. Paul), Op. 36.” Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 1997.
  - Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. “Lauda Sion, Op. 73.” Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 1996.
  - Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. “Elias (Elijah), Op. 70.” Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 1995.
  - Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. “Psalm 115, Op. 31.” Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 1994.
  - Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. “Christus, Op. 97.” Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 1994.
  - Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. “Psalm 98, Op. 91.” Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990.
  - Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. “Psalm 95, Op. 46.” Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 1990.
  - Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. “Kyrie in D minor, 1825.” Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 1986.
  - Mendelssohn Bartholdy, F. “Hör mein Bitten, Orchesterfassung.” Carus Verlag, Stuttgart, 1986.
  - Mendelssohn, F. “Early Works for Piano, Early Works for Violin and Piano.” Cambridge University Press, 1985.
  - Mendelssohn, F. “Piano Sonata in B-flat minor.” C. F. Peters, New York, 1981.
  - Mendelssohn, F. “O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden.” A-R Editions, Madison, WI, 1981.
- Conference Papers
  - TODD, R. L. “AN UNFINISHED PIANO CONCERTO BY MENDELSSOHN.” In College Music Symposium, 21:169–70, 1981.
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