MUSIC 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Felix Mendelssohn, Joseph Joachim, Carl Friedrich Zelter
20 Jan 2016
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Leading european cultural center, with a recently completed. Active book and music publishing industry; home of an influential. Important concert hall (gewandhaus) founded in 1781, site of the long-distance railroad connecting it to dresden music periodical, the neue zeitschrift f r musik premiere of mendelssohn"s violin concerto; resident orchestra also called the gewandhaus. Mendelssohn became director of the gewandhaus concerts in. 1835, planning all twenty concerts of the season and conducting most of them. Famous as a conductor, one of the first to use a baton. Beethoven, his own music, and music of his contemporaries, including schumann, spohr, gade, and berlioz. Concerts at the gewandhaus typically included orchestral music, vocal pieces, excerpts from operas, and chamber and solo works. Born in hamburg into a distinguished german-jewish family; his: felix mendelssohn (1809 1847) Faced with anti-jewish discrimination, the family converted to. The family added the christian surname bartholdy to the family.
