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Article: Die asthetischen Grundlagen der Instrumentalmusik Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys.
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- September 1, 1997
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Carl Dahlhaus remarked in the seminal collection of essays published as Das Problem Mendelssohn, (Regensburg: Gustav-Bosse-Verlag, 1974) that despite the substantial increase in musical and scholarly attention to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy since World War I I, it was still too early to speak of a "Mendelssohn revival" (p. i). Since 1974, the quantity and quality of scholarly work on this highly problematical composer has been nothing short of remarkable: new editions of many of the letters have made it possible to get beyond the bowdlerized and otherwise heavily edited nineteenth-century collections that long provided the only firsthand insight into Mendelssohn's thoughts; ...