Journal articleNineteenth Century Music Review · April 1, 2025
This article discusses illusions of ‘three hands’ in the circle of Joachim and the Mendelssohns, arguing that manifestations of ‘three hands’ at play created an aesthetic both in dialogue with the Golden Age of Virtuosity, and going beyond it. Though techn ...
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Book section · January 1, 2025
This chapter explores what is surely one of the core questions of the entire volume - how did Fanny and Felix interact as musicians and as composers? Both displayed prodigious musical talent at an early age, and both received a parallel musical education, ...
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Journal articleJournal of the Society for American Music · August 4, 2023
Florence Price (1887-1953) was instrumental in establishing a black musical idiom in the twentieth century (Samantha Ege, 2020) by embedding vernacular songs into her works, including Violin Fantasy No. 2 in F-sharp minor, built on I'm workin' on my Buildi ...
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Book section · January 1, 2021
The subject of this chapter, Fanny Hensel’s Lied in D major for piano solo, Op. 8, No. 3, might seem an anomalous choice for a volume devoted to the composer’s texted Lieder. But one could readily advance the argument that, like Schubert, Hensel was at her ...
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Book section · January 1, 2021
‘Every room in which Bach is performed is transformed into a church.’ We do not know the context for this remark attributed to Mendelssohn (sometime before March 1835), but it reflects one significant thread in the nineteenth-century ‘emancipation of music ...
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Book section · January 1, 2021
If not an idée fixe in scholarship, the notion of musical exchanges among intimates of the Schumanns’ circle probably counts at least as a Leitfaden. Clara Schumann’s wistful instrumental romances – and those composed by Robert Schumann, Joseph Joachim and ...
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Journal articleNineteenth Century Music Review · December 1, 2018
History has often viewed Brahms as a Janus-faced composer who turned his gaze backward to contemplate the accumulated riches of music history even as he sought late in his career to exploit new means of musical expression. On the one hand, he habitually co ...
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Digital art · August 2016
Cellist Nancy Green and Pianist R. Larry Todd play Beethoven's Cello Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 69, III - IV: Adagio cantabile - Allegro vivace (Recorded 2016) ...
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Book · January 1, 2014
We know Robert Schumann in many ways: as a visionary composer, a seasoned journalist, a cultured man of letters, and a genius who, having passed his mantle on to the young Brahms, succumbed to mental illness in 1856. Drawing on recent pathbreaking research ...
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Book · January 1, 2013
When R. Larry Todd’s biography, Mendelssohn: A Life in Music, appeared in 2003, it won acclaim from several critics as a definitive biography. In researching Mendelssohn’s life over the last two and a half decades, Todd uncovered much new information about ...
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Book · January 16, 2012
During the 1830s and 1840s the remarkably versatile composer-pianist-organist-conductor Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy stood at the forefront of German and English musical life. Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, ...
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Book · October 3, 2011
Granddaughter of the philosopher Moses Mendelssohn and sister of the composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Fanny Hensel (1805-47) was an extraordinary musician who left well over four hundred compositions, most of which fell into oblivion until their redis ...
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