Benedict Taylor is Chancellor’s Fellow at the Reid School of Music, University of Edinburgh, UK

• Contents: Introduction: The long Mendelssohn Renaissance, Benedict Taylor. Aesthetics: Vorwort and Mendelssohn und die musikalische Gattungstradition, Carl Dahlhaus; The aesthetics of assimilation and affirmation: reconstructing the career of Felix Mendelssohn, Leon Botstein; Felix culpa: Goethe and the image of Mendelssohn, Lawrence Kramer; Marxian programmatic music: a stage in Mendelssohn’s musical development, Judith Silber Ballan; The problem of the lyric persona in Mendelssohn’s songs, Douglas Seaton; Mendelssohn’s Babel: romanticism and the poetics of translation, James Garratt. Music and Source-Studies: Zur Kompositionsart Mendelssohn: Thesen am Beispiel der Streichquartette, Friedhelm Krummacher; Cyclic form and tonal relationships in Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ symphony, Rey M. Longyear; Mendelssohn the progressive, Gregory Vitercik; Mendelssohn: songs without words, William Rothstein; 'Aber eben dieser Zweifel’: A new look at Mendelssohn’s ‘Italian’ symphony, John Michael Cooper; The flight of Icarus: Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang, Mark Evan Bonds. Context and Culture: Mendelssohn’s Ossianic manner, with a new source: On Lena’s gloomy heath, R. Larry Todd; Musical historicism and the transcendental foundation of community: Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang and the ‘Christian German’ cultural politics of Frederick William IV, John Edward Toews; Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music, Michael P. Steinberg; Mendelssohn’s ‘Scottish’ symphony and the music of German memory, Peter Mercer-Taylor; Fingal’s Cave and Ossian’s dream: music, image, and phantasmagoric audition, Thomas Grey. Biography and Reception: 1848, anti-semitism, and the Mendelssohn reception, Donald M. Mintz; The hidden pathways of assimilation: Mendelssohn’s first visit to London, Paul Jourdan; Creative writing: the [self-] identification of Mendelssohn as Jew, Jeffrey S. Sposato; Just how ‘Scottish’ is the ‘Scottish’ symphony? Thoughts on form and poetic content in Mendelssohn’s Opus 56, Thomas Schmidt-Beste; The composer as other: gender and race in the biography of Felix Mendelssohn, Marian Wilson Kimber. Index.