Because internet resources are often ephemeral, and URLs can change, only a selection of current and reliable sources are included here. Please reference the online edition of this book for the most recent information and live links: www.routledgemusiconline.com
In addition to the specific resources listed here, many of the reviews listed in the main portion of this book can be accessed online in PDF, especially those in Notes (www.muse.jhu.edu/journals/notes/). Items listed in the main bibliography that are available in both print and online editions are collected here as well, for ease of reference.
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1215 Art Resource, New York. www.artres.com.
Provides publication licensing for portraits, manuscripts, and other documents and items held by various libraries. As of November 2009, they license about 100 images relating to the Mendelssohn family.
1216 Bildarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz—Photo Agency. www.bpk-images.de.
Provides publication licensing for images held by the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin–Preußischer Kulturbesitz. As of November 2009, the keyword “Mendelssohn” yields over 900 results, most of them relating to the Mendelssohn family. However, some results appear because they are held by the Mendelssohn-Archiv, whether they relate to the Mendelssohns or not.
1217 Geschichtsforum Jägerstraße. www.jaegerstrasse.de.
Website for the exhibit and events at the Bankhaus Mendelssohn, Jägerstraße 51, Berlin. Includes information about the exhibit and research connected with banking in the Mendelssohn family.
1218 Juilliard Manuscript Collection. www.juilliardmanuscriptcollection.org.
Beautiful full-color scans of manuscripts donated by Bruce Kovner to establish the collection in 2006. FMB is represented by the Liederbuch für Cécile Weihnachten 1845, sections of Athalie, and a fragment of the Konzertstück Op. 113. The collection includes numerous manuscripts by other composers as well, from J. S. Bach to Peter Warlock. Requires Flash player to view, which allows the viewer to magnify the image. The images cannot be downloaded.
1219 Lebrecht Photo Library, Music and Arts Pictures. www.lebrecht.co.uk.
Licenses about 200 images relating to the Mendelssohn family, including caricatures and modern photographs of Mendelssohn events. One of the few to supply a reproduction of the 1835 portrait of FMB by Wilhelm von Schadow (on the cover of this book).
1220 Mendelssohn Enzyklopädie. www.mendelssohn-enzyklopaedie.de.
Useful, short biographies of eighteen Mendelssohns (excluding Felix and Fanny), including Moses Mendelssohn, Joseph Mendelssohn, Dorothea Schlegel, Abraham Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Paul Mendelssohn Bartholdy, and Rebecka Dirichlet. Biographies written by: HansGünter Klein, Thomas Lackmann, Cécile Lowenthal-Hensel, Hannah Lotte Lund, Elke von Nieding, Sebastian Panwitz, Miriam Stachat, and Ilse Rabien. Each entry includes a list of research resources, primary sources, and literature, where available. German only. Maintained by Sebastian Panwitz.
1221 Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft. www.mendelssohn-gesellschaft.de.
Central site for Mendelssohn family research in Germany, including information on recent publications on the Mendelssohn family, the Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft Newsletter (Rundbriefe), and indexes for the most recent issues of its publication, Mendelssohn-Studien (see item 1). Links posted to further sites of relevance to those interested in the Mendelssohn family and Jewish culture and history.
1222 Mendelssohn House Leipzig and The Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Foundation. www.mendelssohn-stiftung.de.
The Mendelssohn House portion of the site lists information about Mendelssohn’s final residence in Leipzig, at Goldschmidtstrasse No. 12, which has been renovated and turned into a museum. The Mendelssohn Foundation portion of the site provides information about the foundation and upcoming and past events. In German and English.
1223 Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum. www.mmz-potsdam.de.
Website for the Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies, located at Am Neuen Markt 8, 14467 Potsdam, Germany. Directed by Julius H. Schoeps. Includes information on the scholars in residence, a listing of future and past events and conferences, news, and publications on all aspects of Jewish history, religion, and culture throughout Europe. German; parts of the site are available in English.
1224 Musikabteilung mit Mendelssohn-Archiv, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin– Preußischer Kulturbesitz. www.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/musikabteilung.html.
Start site for the music department of the Berlin State Library–Prussian Cultural Heritage, located at Unter den Linden 8, 10117 Berlin, Germany. Directed by Martina Rebmann. Links to the Mendelssohn Archive, directed by Roland Schmidt-Hensel. Available in English and German.
1225 Cooper, J. Michael. “Knowing Mendelssohn: A Challenge from the Primary Sources.” Notes 61 (1) (Sept. 2004): 35–95. www.muse.jhu.edu/journals/notes/v061/61.1cooper.pdf.
A valuable resource discussing research sources for FMB with a selected bibliography.
1226 ——“‘ … da ich dies Stück gern recht correct erscheinen sähe’: Philological and Textual Issues in Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture, Op. 26.” Philomusica Online 3 (2003–2004). http://riviste.paviauniversitypress.it/index.php/phi/article/view/03-02-SG01/9.
A detailed investigation of the genesis and source situation for FMB’s Hebrides Overture. Includes particulars on performances, revisions, editions, and manuscript sources.
1227 ——“One Aria or Two? Mendelssohn, Metastasio, and Infelice.” Philomusica Online 4 (2004). http://riviste.paviauniversitypress.it/index.php/phi/article/view/04-02-INT01/36
See also item 427.
1228 Dempsey, Sinéad. “Hero or Has Been? Mendelssohn Reception in England and Germany in the 1840s.” British Postgraduate Musicology 6 (2004). www.bpmonline.org.uk/bpm6-hero.html.
Dempsey reconsiders the notion that Mendelssohn’s reception see-sawed from contemporary adulation to posthumous denigration, arguing that seeds of dissent were sown already during his lifetime. Contrasts especially English and German opinions.
1229 Hirsch, Lily E. “Felix Mendelssohn’s Psalm 100 Reconsidered.” Philomusica Online 4 (2004). http://riviste.paviauniversitypress.it/index.php/phi/article/view/04-01-SG02/23.
Reconsiders and disproves Eric Werner’s claim that FMB wrote Psalm 100 for the New Israelite Temple in Hamburg in light of five letters exchanged with Maimon Fränkel (provided in their entirety with the article in both the original German and English translations). Argues that the work was intended instead for the Berlin Cathedral.
1230 Jeßulat, Ariane. “Mendelssohns Beethoven-Rezeption als Beispiel musikalischer Zitiertechnik.” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie 2 (1) (2005). www.gmth.de/zeitschrift/artikel/468.aspx.
Jeßulat takes a closer look at the comparisons between Mendelssohn’s String Quartet Op. 13 and Beethoven’s String Quartet Op. 132 as a case study for quotation as a compositional device in the Romantic era.
1231 Oelmann, Klaus Henning. “Zu Tradition und Rezeption des Streichquartettes im Skandinavien des 19. Jahrhunderts.” Die Tonkunst Online 4 (11) (2004): 11 pp. www.die-tonkunst.de/dtk-archiv/pdf/0411-Zu_Tradition_und_Rezeption_des_Streichquartetts.pdf.
Discusses the model of Mendelssohn’s Op. 13 in Scandinavian string quartets.
1232 Todd, R. Larry. “Mendelssohn(-Bartholdy), (Jacob Ludwig) Felix.” In Stanley Sadie, ed., New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. 2nd edn. London: Macmillan 2001. Vol. 16, pp. 389–424. www.oxfordmusiconline.com.
Concise reference biography. Includes a revised and updated catalog of works.
1233 ——“Humboldt, Mendelssohn, and Musical Unity.” Published online as Chapter 1 of the conference proceedings of “Alexander von Humboldt: From the Americas to the Cosmos,” City University of New York Graduate Center, 2005. http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/bildn/publications/documents/Todd1.pdf.
Explores the relationship between Alexander Humboldt and the Mendelssohns, focusing on both Humboldt’s and FMB’s abilities as polymaths. Discusses Mendelssohn’s “Humboldt” cantata.
1234 Wasserman, Janet I. “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy as ‘Peter Meffert of Buxtehude.’” www.janetwasserman.com/felix-mendelssohn-bartholdy-as-peter-meffert-of-buxtehude.html.
Explores Mendelssohn’s use of the nickname “Peter Meffert” on caricatures of himself and discusses references to the pseudonym in The Musical Times, 1891–1909. Shows that FMB probably used the pseudonym as early as 1829, rather than just in the 1840s as previously believed.