Felix Mendelssohn

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mainly returns to Mendelssohn's act of bringing the St Matthew Passion back to Leipzig. He sees it as proof that the Romantics rehabilitate Baroque music: in his view, nothing is more Romantic than this resurrection of the pre-Romantic repertoire12. He also recalls that Mendelssohn founds the Gewandhaus and that the concert audience is overwhelmed34. He presents Mendelssohn as a happy Romantic, born into wealth in Hamburg and long wrongly judged superficial. For him, happy music is no less good for that, and he draws on Nietzsche, who defends this happiness true to the first name Felix and calls Mendelssohn the "halcyon master"5. He cites A Midsummer Night's Dream, composed at seventeen, as a masterpiece6. Finally, he places him among the five Romantic piano styles he considers all different7. He also counts him among the musicians whom Wagner has not been proven to surpass.

1. 1Au bistrot avec Pagani : partie 118 Jun 2016 · 58:00
2. 2Musicosophie 14. Mozart derechef7 Feb 2021 · 53:47
3. 3#6 • Les Attelé(e)s de la confinitude26 Apr 2020 · 9:48
4. 4Musicosophie 4. Les ghettos sonores3 Dec 2020 · 44:29
5. 5Musicosophie 2. De Lévi-Strauss à Nerval à propos de la musique3 Dec 2020 · 1:38:01
6. 6Pour une apocalypse "fraiche et joyeuse" ?24 Jun 2024 · 9:36
7. 7Musicosophie 17. L'interprétation25 Mar 2021 · 37:57

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