Überlegungen zu Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys Ästhetik im Kontext ihrer Zeit
Reflections on Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Aesthetics in the Context of Their Time

Summary/Abstract: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy contributed to all major genres, symphony, solo-concert, string quartet, doing this in the notion of progress in arts. He created the concert ouverture and the Lied ohne Worte as new poetic genres. Turning back to Handel and Bach, he revived the oratorio, thus giving new impulses to other composers. Nevertheless, German musicology did not regard him as a first-rate composer. This contempt is connected with a narrow understanding of the idea of genius which spread out during the 19th century. It is also connected with arguments of concealed antisemitism.

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