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Film, Video Revisiting Mendelssohn's Octet

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Title

  • Revisiting Mendelssohn's Octet

Summary

  • Larry Todd discusses Mendelssohn's Octet (1825), usually viewed as epitomizing the composer's astonishing, early full maturity, and as the culmination of his extraordinary precocity. If Goethe and Heine had already heralded the composer as the "second Mozart," in the Octet the adolescent composer broke new ground by producing a richly hued masterpiece that explored on many levels the idea of virtuosity and indeed challenged the limits of chamber music. Drawing on autograph manuscripts held in the Library of Congress, this lecture reviews the complex early history of this masterpiece, and considers how the youthful inspiration of 1825 "aged" into the familiar icon of chamber music that it remains. Presented as part of the American Musicological Society lecture series at the Library of Congress.

Names

  • Library of Congress
  • Library of Congress. Music Division, sponsoring body

Created / Published

  • Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 2016-05-19.

Headings

  • -  Culture, Performing Arts
  • -  music, Mendelssohn

Notes

  • -  Classification: Music and Books on Music.
  • -  R. Larry Todd.
  • -  Recorded on 2016-05-19.
  • -  Librarians, Archivists.
  • -  Researchers.
  • -  Teachers.

Medium

  • 1 online resource

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2021690188

Online Format

  • video
  • image
  • online text

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Chicago citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division. Revisiting Mendelssohn's Octet. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-19, 2016. Video. https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690188/.

APA citation style:

Library Of Congress & Library Of Congress. Music Division, S. B. (2016) Revisiting Mendelssohn's Octet. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-19. [Video] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2021690188/.

MLA citation style:

Library Of Congress, and Sponsoring Body Library Of Congress. Music Division. Revisiting Mendelssohn's Octet. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, -05-19, 2016. Video. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2021690188/>.