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Mendelssohn
An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor. Now, in the first major Mendelssohn biography to appear in decades, Todd offers a remarkably fresh account of this musical giant.
Moses Mendelssohn
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Mendelssohn and His World
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 Bringing together previously unpublished essays by historians and musicologists, reflections on Mendelssohn written by his contemporaries, the composer's own letters, and early critical reviews of his music, this volume explores various facets of Mendelssohn's music, his social and intellectual circles, and his career. The essays in Part I cover the nature of a Jewish identity in Mendelssohn's music (Leon Botstein); his relationship to the Berlin Singakademie (William A. Little); the role of his sister Fanny Hensel, her...
Aspects of Nature in Different Lands and Different Climates, 1
"It is not without diifidence that I present to the public a series of papers which took their origin in the presence of natural scenes of grandeur or of beauty -- on the Ocean, in the forests of the Orinoco, in the Steppes of Venezula, and in the mountain wildernesses of Peru and Mexico." (p. 1).
Classical Influences on Western Thought A.D. 1650-1870
This volume examines the progress of classical studies to the general history of ideas from 1650 to 1870.
Colonial Spanish America
The complete Cambridge History of Latin America presents a large-scale, authoritative survey of Latin America's unique historical experience from the first contacts between the native American Indians and Europeans to the present day. Colonial Spanish America is a selection of chapters from volumes I and II brought together to provide a continuous history of the Spanish Empire in America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries. The first three chapters deal with conquest and settlement and relations between Spain and its American Empire; the final six with urban development, mining, rural economy and society, including the formation of the hacienda, the internal economy, and the impact of Spanish rule on Indian societies. Bibliographical essays are included for all chapters. The book will be a valuable text for both students and teachers of Latin American history.
Classical Influences on European Culture, A.D. 1500-1700
The papers illustrate the different ways in which the Renaissance made use of its classical heritage.
