Transcriptions of Schubert Lieder , 371, 391, 392, 393
Lithander, Carol (b. ca. 1807; pianist), 133
Litzmann, Berthold (1857–1926; biographer), 532
Liverpool, 216–217, 325, 356, 486, 560
Lobe, Johann Christian (1797–1881; composer, flutist), 86, 89
Lobwasser, Ambrosius (1515–1585; humanist translator), 465
Locke, John (1632–1704; philosopher), 3, 7
Lockey, Charles (1820–1901; tenor), 525, 544
Lockspeiser, Edward (1905–1973; musicologist), 260–261
Loewe, Carl (1796–1869; composer), 43, 156, 167, 225, 301, 337, 469
London, xxiii, 18, 29, 49, 112, 134, 148, 179, 201, 202–203, 205–206, 209, 210, 217, 218, 219, 244, 246, 247, 257, 258, 262–263, 272, 274–275, 276, 280, 281, 283, 284, 293, 294, 323, 355–356, 357, 358, 364, 366, 384, 388, 403, 404, 435, 436, 438, 439, 471, 472, 475, 477, 487, 517, 523, 524, 525, 529, 542, 544, 545, 546, 558, 566
Ancient Concerts, 205, 247
Argyll Rooms, 205, 206, 207, 597n158
Buckingham Palace, 175, 439, 546, 624n110
Christ Church, Newgate Street, 356, 404, 437
Covent Garden, 206, 208, 209, 541, 560
Crosby Hall, 468, 473
Drury Lane, 206, 208, 540–541
Exeter Hall, 336, 357, 438, 474, 545
Hanover Square Rooms, 205, 276, 525, 527, 547
King’s Theatre, 203, 204, 206, 258, 275, 541, 547
Mendelssohn Society, 620n70
Philharmonic Society, xxi, 37, 148, 204, 205, 206, 207, 218, 219, 258, 259, 260, 272, 273, 276, 282, 288, 289, 293, 372, 438, 464, 471, 472–473, 527, 545, 616n96
Royal Academy of Music, 318
Royal Music Library, 209, 219, 275, 475
Sacred Harmonic Society, 357, 358, 438, 529, 537, 544, 545
St. John’s Chapel, Paddington, 259, 356
St. John’s, Waterloo, 259
St. Paul’s Cathedral, 204, 259, 275, 281, 295, 356, 606n9
St. Peter’s Church, Cornhill, 404, 437
Somerset House, 209, 282
Westminster Abbey, 259, 358, 366
Lorenz, Oswald (1806–1889; music critic, organist), 375
Lortzing, Albert (1801–1851; composer), 395, 420, 500
Lotti, Antonio (1666–1740; composer), 177, 286
Louis XIV, King of France (1638–1715), 324, 502
Louis XVI, King of France (1754–1793), 140
Louis XVIII, King of France (1755–1824), 19, 32, 140
Louis Ferdinand, Prince of Prussia (1772–1806; composer, pianist), 60, 94
Louis-Philippe, King of France (1773–1850), 20, 143, 251, 574n95
Lower Rhine Music Festivals, 352
15th (1833: Düsseldorf), 273–274, 275, 276, 280, 304, 318
16th (1834: Aachen), 295
17th (1835: Cologne), 303–304, 308
18th (1836: Düsseldorf), 311, 317–320, 547
20th (1838: Cologne), 360, 365, 381
21st (1839: Düsseldorf), 354, 371, 374, 375–376
24th (1842: Düsseldorf), 425, 435–436
28th (1846: Aachen), 513, 515–516
Lucerne, 99, 100, 441, 558, plate 19
Ludwig I, King of Bavaria (1786–1868), 228, 249
Lübeck, Johann Heinrich (1799–1865; director of Hague Conservatory), 325
Lüttichau, Ida (wife of Dresden Theater Intendant, 1845), 514
Lützow, Adolf von (1782–1834) Wilde Jagd , 439
Lumley, Benjamin (1810–1875, London opera impresario), 541–542, 560
Luther, Martin (1483–1546; theologian), 49, 81, 241, 255, 348, 395, 397, 492, 506
L’vov, Alexey Fyodorovich (1798–1870; Russian composer, violinist), 405
Lyser, Johann Peter (1803–1870; illustrator, musician), 285, 354
Macfarren, Sir George Alexander (1813–1887; composer), 438, 464, 474, 475
Macpherson, James (1736–1796; Ossianic poet), 432, 526
Magis, Henri-Guillaume-Marie-Jean-Pierre (1800–1863; music director of Liège orphanage), 493
Magnus, Albert (1809–1859; student friend), 176
Magnus, Eduard (1799–1872; painter), 403, 500
Magnus, Gustav (1802–1870; physicist), 177
Mainz, 320, 325, 326, 348, 441, 493, 515
Malibran, Maria (1808–1836; Spanish mezzosoprano), 203, 206, 207, 282, 294, 325, 327, 403, 457, 561
Manchester, 323, 327, 358, 438, 475, 529, 545, 624n96
Mantius, Eduard (1806–1874; tenor), 220, 222
Marcello, Benedetto (1686–1739; composer), 441, 528
Marie Thérèse, Queen of France (1638–1683), 502
Mario, Giovanni Matteo (1810–1883; tenor), 528
Marrisen, Michael (b. 1960; musicologist), 197
Marpurg, Friedrich Wilhelm (1718–1795; music critic, theorist), 43, 44, 54, 56
Marschner, Heinrich August (1795–1861; composer), 227, 296, 297, 299, 407, 589n29, 539
Martens, Daniel Bertram (fl. 1790–1795; Altona resident), 28
Marx, Adolf Bernhard (1795–1866; composer, music critic, theorist), 17, 43, 44, 61, 123, 127–128, 135, 156, 161, 167, 174, 175, 176, 182, 184, 189, 193, 194, 196, 223, 226, 230, 266–268, 269, 294, 394, 397, 556
Marx, Samuel Moses (father of A. B.), 267
Marx, Therese (wife of A. B.), 128, 394
Marxsen, Eduard (1806–1887; composer, pianist), 328
Mary, Queen of Scots (1542–1587), 214, 430, 434
Mason, Lowell (1792–1872; American composer, conductor, writer), 357, 579n30
Massow, Ludwig von (1794–1859; Prussian Geheimrat), 407, 408, 438, 443, 444, 450
Masur, Kurt (b. 1927; conductor), 571n3
Matthäi, Heinrich August (1781–1835; Gewandhaus concertmaster), 298, 308, 311, 450
Matthisson, Friedrich von (1761–1831; poet) Andenken , 114
Maurer, Ludwig (1789–1878; composer, violinist), 155, 588n89
Mayseder, Joseph (1789–1863; composer, violinist), 231
Mazarin, Jules Cardinal (1602–1661; statesman), 364
Mechetti, Pietro (1777–1850; publisher), 231, 414
Meerti, Elisa. See Blaes.
Méhul, Etienne-Nicolas (1763–1817; composer), 364, 528
Melanchthon, Philipp (1497–1560; theologian), 225
Mellers, Wilfrid (b. 1914; musicologist), 468
Mendel Dessau, Moses ben. See Mendelssohn, Moses.
Mendelssohn, Alexander (1798–1871; banker, cousin, son of Joseph), 16, 27, 65, 75, 136, 320, 352
Mendelssohn, Arnold Maximilian Albrecht (1817–1854; cousin, son of Carl Theodor), 19, 122, 557
Mendelssohn, Brendel. See Schlegel, Dorothea.
Mendelssohn, Carl Theodor Nathaniel (olim Nathan) (1782–1852; engineer, uncle), 2, 18–19, 121–122, 207, 557
Mendelssohn, Fromet née Gugenheim (1737–1812; grandmother), 4, 28
Mendelssohn, Georg Benjamin (1794–1874; geographer, cousin, son of Joseph), 16, 17, 27, 32–33, 217, 287, 292, 390
Mendelssohn, Henriette (Jette; later Maria Henrietta) (1775–1831; aunt), 2, 17, 18, 19–20, 23, 30, 35, 36, 49, 65, 73, 139, 141, 256
Mendelssohn, Henriette née Itzig (1781–1845; aunt), 19
Mendelssohn, Henriette (Hinni) née Meyer (1776–1862, aunt, wife of Joseph), 16, 18, 27, 90, 178, 291, 355
Mendelssohn, Joseph (1770–1848; banker, uncle), 2, 7, 9, 15–16, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 27, 29, 30–31, 32, 33, 35, 64, 65, 89–90, 121, 134, 177–178, 183, 284, 326, 355, 380, 390, 430, 448, 529, 552
Mendelssohn, Marianne née Seeligman (1799–1880; cousin, wife of Alexander), 65, 136
Mendelssohn, Moses (1729–1786; grandfather), 1–10, 12, 14, 15, 16, 20, 22, 38, 53, 77, 102, 137, 139, 208, 267, 281, 310, 448, 484, 486, 557, 568, 574n75, plate 1
Biblical translations, 6, 9, 16, 39, 56
Gesamtausgabe , 17, 390, 448
Jerusalem , 6–7
Morgenstunden (Morning Hours, or Lectures on the Exist
ence of God) , 7–8, 16
Phaedon , 5, 244
Philosophische Gespräche , 1
Mendelssohn, Nathan. See Mendelssohn, Carl Theodor.
Mendelssohn, Recha (Rebecca). See Meyer.
Mendelssohn und Friedländer (firm), 16
Mendelssohn Bartholdy (the name), 15, 16, 33, 139, 208
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Abraham (1776–1835; banker, father), 2, 5, 9, 11, 15–18, 20, 22, 23, 27, 29–38 passim, 45, 47, 48, 50–51, 52, 53, 58, 64, 65, 67, 69, 77, 84, 89–90, 97, 102, 119, 120, 121–122, 124, 128, 131, 134–141 passim, 161, 168, 171, 183, 201, 202, 207, 208, 218, 219, 220, 227, 234, 238, 243, 244, 247–248, 249, 251, 263, 264, 267, 280, 281–285, 289, 290, 292, 295, 297, 299, 300, 304, 305, 306, 309–311, 312, 319, 321, 323, 337–338, 343–344, 349, 404, 440, 441, 445, 447, 502, 524, 532, 556, 576n51, 579n29
health, 282, 284, 291, 309, 310
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Albertine née Heine (1814–1879; wife of Paul Hermann), 213, 289, 311, 318, 328, 363, 366, 384, 425, 435, 440, 449
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Carl Wolfgang Paul (1838–1897; son), xxviii, 363, 365, 370, 371, 375, 376, 394
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Cécile-Sophie-Charlotte née Jeanrenaud (1817–1853; wife), 47, 95, 102, 138, 317, 321–326, 329, 330, 335, 347–362 passim, 365, 369, 370, 375, 376, 384, 394, 402, 404, 409, 411, 425, 435, 436, 438, 439, 440, 451, 452, 471, 472, 476, 483, 485, 486, 499, 532, 534, 538, 540, 561, 565, 566, 567, 568, plate 13
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Ernst von (1846–1909; banker, son of Paul Hermann), 590n75
Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Felix (Jacob Ludwig Felix) (February 3, 1809–November 4, 1847)
appearance, 74, 75, 102–103, 323, 436, 439, 474, 493–494, 500, 544, 560
and Bach, xx, xxiii, 49, 55, 132, 147, 154, 180, 233, 377, 478, 479, 487, 532
Bach influences, 49, 61, 62, 92, 101, 110, 114–115, 133, 157, 158, 159, 180, 185, 188, 210, 232, 234, 308, 331, 337, 341, 343, 348–349, 402, 455, 488, 489–490, 514, 518, 539, 548, 554, 556, 617n119
baptism, xxviii, 33, 50
Beethoven influences, 91, 94, 111, 113, 116, 117, 125, 129–131, 133, 149, 159–160, 173, 178, 184, 189, 218, 226, 293, 492, 617n119
birth and infancy, 28, 29, 269
character, 56, 91, 102, 141, 251, 265, 269, 299, 307, 323, 436, 439, 442, 567
commissions, 173, 184, 185, 208, 219, 272, 276, 293, 365, 404, 453, 478, 483, 492, 493, 500, 514, 529–530, 531, 560
on composition, 155, 352, 558
as conductor/director, xix, 155, 196, 206, 249, 258–259, 269, 276, 281, 286, 287, 297, 304, 308, 309, 320, 336, 357, 358, 359, 363, 370, 372, 393, 397, 403, 404, 405, 409, 411, 425, 430, 435, 436, 438, 444, 448, 450, 451, 464, 469, 472, 473, 478, 486, 500, 508–509, 511, 515–516, 520, 527, 528, 532, 538, 539, 545–546, 624n101
confirmation, 155, 219
courtship, engagement and wedding, 321–326, 329–330, 335, 347–348, 529
death and burial, xxii, 567–569, plate 20
dedications by, 36, 57, 95, 104, 116, 146, 151, 156, 158, 176, 195, 218, 249, 282, 293, 302, 330, 331, 348, 350, 352, 367, 375, 390, 409, 439, 455, 458, 469, 490, 491, 494
dedications to, 132, 156, 211, 229, 331, 352, 372, 442, 448
doctorate, 315, plate 12
as editor, 17, 167, 475–476, 478
education, 33–34, 69, 70–71, 171–172, 182–183, 191
and Fanny, xxviii-xxix, 36, 62, 74, 101, 128, 132, 175, 177, 180, 181, 191, 224, 230, 300, 319, 334, 335, 352–353, 365, 407, 557–558, 562, 569. See also under Hensel, Fanny. performances with, 47, 112, 113, 117, 135, 148, 156, 162, 190, 359, 580n54
Gade influences, 431–432
as Generalmusikdirektor (Berlin), 443, 445, 446, 456, 469, 483
Handel influences, 62, 152, 157–159, 185, 188, 195, 308, 337, 340, 381, 539, 548
health, 90, 218–219, 226, 258, 268, 325, 326, 362, 370, 387, 402, 403, 405, 447, 473, 486, 565–566
historicism, xxvii, 57, 60, 110, 116, 157–159, 181, 233, 308, 327, 331, 334, 337, 342, 400, 539, 548
honeymoon, 348, 349–350, 351, 360, 380
as improviser, xix, 62, 84, 87, 89, 93, 101, 114, 122, 139, 145, 172, 175, 191, 202, 204, 220, 227, 236, 237, 249, 254, 258, 259, 268, 282–283, 290, 293, 296, 309, 329, 356, 358, 372, 388, 393, 401, 404, 435, 436, 437–438, 439, 458, 469, 473, 474, 485, 488, 508, 510, 525, 545, 546, 547, 560, 606n9
as Jew, xxiii, xxviii, 2, 12, 30, 50–51, 72, 81, 131–132, 194, 226, 235, 264, 283, 291–292, 302, 314, 380–381, 551, 556
library, 92, 123, 405, 478, 483–484, 579n39
as librettist, 266–267, 343, 394, 508, 514–515, 521, 522, 552–553, 556
memory, 33, 37, 88, 101, 167, 191, 207, 245, 249, 274, 276, 315, 441, 444, 458, 464, 473, 512, 525, 545, 546 672
compared to Mozart, xix, 48, 87, 89, 104–108, 109, 112, 149, 377, 567
Mozart influences, 57, 60, 61, 70, 94–95, 104–108, 110, 116, 129, 131, 141–142, 149, 160, 367, 379
musical education, 4, 33, 35, 37–38, 43–47, 49, 53–60, 71, 135
and opera, 69, 74, 147, 171, 177, 208, 231, 247, 250–251, 269, 296, 298–300, 323, 354, 358, 424–425, 527, 540, 548, 560–561
operas contemplated, 126, 251, 290, 362, 364–365, 407, 424, 434, 483, 485, 507, 513–514, 541–542, 559–560
oratorios contemplated, 354, 364, 390–391, 492, 546, 601n173
as organist, xix, 59, 81, 148, 191, 201–202, 204, 228, 249, 259, 282, 298, 348, 349, 354, 356, 357, 358, 376, 377, 401, 437–438, 441, 453, 476, 478, 488, 493, 547, 560, 624n96
as painter/draughtsman, 33, 84, 87, 97, 99, 100, 101, 103, 124, 128, 131, 137, 165, 189, 213, 214, 215, 217, 230, 244, 245, 261, 293, 323, 325, 329, 354, 376, 380, 392, 440, 441, 447, 483, 486, 540, 558, 564; plates 5, 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19
as percussionist, 254, 259
perfect pitch, 87, 204
as pianist, xix, 35–37, 61, 65, 68, 73, 82, 84, 86–87, 103, 118, 122, 135, 146, 155, 156, 157, 167, 176, 191, 196, 207, 216, 238, 247, 249, 253, 254, 258, 259, 268–269, 274, 275, 276, 281, 282, 284, 295, 296, 307, 309, 310, 314, 320, 328, 329, 335, 351, 355, 357, 360, 362, 363, 364, 372, 376, 383, 388, 389, 393, 404, 405, 406, 409, 412, 425, 430, 435, 439, 441, 444, 449, 458, 464, 471, 473, 474, 485, 493, 494, 500, 508, 509, 510, 512, 513, 515, 521, 525, 528, 533, 538, 545, 546, 580n54, 588n89
as poet, 71–72, 165
political sympathies, xxvi, 252, 282, 407, 500, 532–533
portraits of, xxv, 32, 75, 202, 209, 211, 212–213, 219, 227, 237, 262, 292, 300, 309, 317, 355, 403, 415, 441, 483, 500, 567; frontispiece, plates 3, 4, 20
precocity, xix, 35–37, 48, 52, 65, 71, 87–88, 101, 112, 135, 145–146
and Prussian court, 407, 408–409, 417, 418, 442, 443–444, 445, 450, 472, 475, 483, 485, 492, 498
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