Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn in Context

Thomas Schmidt is Head of the School of Arts, Languages and Cultures and Professor of Music at the University of Manchester. He is the author of Cambridge Introduction to the Sonata (2011), The Motet Around 1500 (2012) and The Production and Reading of Music Sources, 1480–1530 (2018). He has edited six volumes for the Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (LMA) and has been its co-editor-in-chief since 2022. Benedict Taylor is Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include Mendelssohn, Time and Memory (Cambridge, 2011), The Melody of Time (2016), Music, Subjectivity, and Schumann (Cambridge, 2022), and Hensel: String Quartet in E flat (Cambridge 2023). He is general editor of Cambridge University Press's Music in Context series and edited the Cambridge Companion to Music and Romanticism (2021).

• List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Abbreviations; Preface; Part I. Family and Upbringing: 1. Berlin Jews in the long Eighteenth Century David Conway; 2. Family background Susan Wollenberg; 3. Education Cornelia Bartsch; 4. The family cosmos Beatrix Borchard; 5. Fanny and Felix's personal relationship Angela R. Mace; 6. Fanny and Felix's musical relationship R. Larry Todd; Part II. Friends and Colleagues: 7. 'Das Rad': circles of friendship Thomas Schmidt; 8. Adult friendships; 9. Luminaries John Michael Cooper; 10. Colleagues (and Friends?) Maximilian Rosenthal; 11. Critics James Garratt; 12. Relations with publishers Maximilian Rosenthal; Part III. Cultural and Intellectual Worlds: 13. Aesthetics and Philosophy James Garratt; 14. Theology Laura K. T. Stokes; 15. Literary inheritance Lorraine Byrne Bodley; 16. Politics Sanna Pederson; 17. Visual art and painting Thomas Tolley; 18. Correspondence Peter Ward Jones; Part IV. Environments and Institutions: 19. Berlin's cultural and musical life, c. 1811–32 Jennifer Ronyak; 20. Leading music institutions in Leipzig Stefan Keym and Mirjam Gerber; 21. The Berlin of Friedrich Wilhelm IV (1840–47) Jason Geary; 22. The Leipzig Conservatory Ariane Jeßulat; 23. Travellers Monika Hennemann; 24. England Peter Ward Jones; Part V. Musical Activities: 25. Professional and public music-making Katharina Uhde; 26. Private and amateur music-making Jennifer Ronyak; 27. Publishing and editing Douglass Seaton; 28. Constructing a musical canon Peter Mercer-Taylor; 29. The Bach revival Wolfgang Dinglinger; 30. Beethoven Benedict Taylor; Part VI. Reception and Legacies; 31. Interpretations of Jewish Identity Susan Wollenberg; 32. Felix Mendelssohn's reception in his lifetime Sinead Dempsey Garratt; 33. The curation of the Mendelssohns' legacy Christiane Wiesenfeldt; 34. Felix Mendelssohn's posthumous reception Barbara Eichner; 35. Fanny Hensel's reception and revival Marian Wilson Kimber; 36. Fanny Hensel's modern legacy Stephen Rodgers; Epilogue: A Future for Mendelssohn and Hensel Studies Benedict Taylor and Thomas Schmidt.