Jeffrey S Sposato: 2 books
Leipzig After Bach
Church and Concert Life in a German City
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Leipzig, Germany, is renowned as the city where Johann Sebastian Bach worked as a church musician until his death in 1750, and where Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy directed the famed Gewandhaus orchestra until his own death in 1847. But the century in between these events was critically important as...
The Price of Assimilation
Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2005
Most scholars since World War Two have assumed that composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) maintained a strong attachment to Judaism throughout his lifetime. As these commentators have rightly noted, Mendelssohn was born Jewish and did not convert to Protestantism until age seven, his grandfather...