Table of Contents

Part I: 1. Figured and Fundamental Bass Exercises; 2. Der 'plane' Choralgesang; 3. Der 'verziehrte' Gesang; 4. Gellert Chorales; 5. Invertible Counterpoint; 6. Two-Part Canon; 7. Preliminary Fugal Exercises; 8. Two-Part Fugue; 9. Three-Part Fugue and Canon; 10. Some Unknown Juvenilia of Mendelssohn; 11. Summary; Select Bibliography; Part II: Inventory of Oxford, Bodleian MS Margaret Deneke Mendelssohn C. 43; Critical Commentary; The Zelter-Mendelssohn Exercise Book.

Promotional Information

This book is a study and critical edition of Mendelssohn's composition exercise book from his early period of study with Carl Friedrich Zelter (1819–1821).