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Books

  1. R. Larry Todd. Mendelssohn Essays.  Routledge, 2007 (xiii+340pp. pp.).  [abs]
  2. R. L. Todd. Nineteenth-Century Piano Music.  2nd Edition Routledge, 2004 (xvi+468 pp.). (originally edited for Schirmer Books, Macmillan in 1990; the 2nd edition which has been corrected and expanded to include a new article by Marian Wilson Kimber.)
  3. R. L. Todd. Mendelssohn: A Life in Music.  NY., Oxford University Press, October, 2003 (xxix+683 pp.). (The first major Mendelssohn biography in several decades, released in October 2003. Cited in the Seattle Times as one of the best classical music books of 2003; Named best biography of 2003 by the Associated of American Publishers (February 2004). German translation of an expanded edition in preparation.)
  4. R. L. Todd. Routledge Studies in Musical Genres Series. 2003 . (General editor of the new Routledge Studies in Musical Genres Series, which has begun publication by releasing 2nd eds. of several volumes in the old Schirmer Studies in Musical Genres. To date, four volumes by Lex Silbiger (emeritus, Duke Univ.), Robert Marshall (emeritus, Brandeis), Stephen Hefling, Case Western Reserve), and James McCalla (Bowdoin) have appeared. Additional volumes are in planning.)
  5.  Schumann and His World.  edited by R. Larry Todd Princeton University Press, 1994 (xi+396 pp.).
  6.  Mendelssohn, "The Hebrides" and Other Overtures.  Cambridge University Press, 1993 (vii+121 pp.).
  7.  Mendelssohn Studies.  edited by R. Larry Todd Cambridge University Press, 1992 (xi+261 pp.).
  8.  Mendelssohn and His World.  edited by R. Larry Todd Princeton University Press, 1991 (xv+404 pp.).
  9.  Perspectives on Mozart Performance.  edited by R. Larry Todd and Peter Williams Cambridge University Press, 1991 (xvi+263 pp.).
  10. R. Todd. The Musical Art: An Introduction to Western Music.  Belmont: Wadsworth, 1990 (xxi+189 pp.).
  11.  Mendelssohn and Schumann Essays: Perspectives on Their Music and Its Context.  edited by R. Larry Todd and Jon W. Finson Duke University Press, 1984 (vii+189 pp.).
  12. R. Todd. Mendelssohn's Musical Education: A Study and Edition of His Exercises in Composition.  Cambridge University Press, 1983 (xii+246 pp.).

Articles

  1. R. Larry Todd. ""Fanny Hensel's Op. 6 No. 1 and the Art of Musical Reminiscence"." Nineteenth-Century Music Review 4.2 (2007).
  2. R. Todd. "Humboldt, Mendelssohn and Musical Unity." published on line as Ch. 1 of the conference proceedings of Alexander von Humboldt: From the Americas to the Cosmos, CUNY Graduate Center (www.humboldt/conference.org/)  (2005): 3-15.
  3. R. Todd. "Mendelssohn's Legacy: A Performer's Symposium." Piano  (September/October 2005): 20-29. with András Schiff, Roberto Prosseda, Frederic Chiu, Anton Kuerti, Martin Jones, and other pianists
  4. R. Todd. "Mendelssohn the Musical Polymath." Piano Today  (Fall 2005): 7, 24.
  5. R. Todd. "Hidden Treasures [bicentenary of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel]." Piano  (September/October 2005): 13-14.
  6. with David R. A. Evans and Judith E. Olson. "A Welsh Collection of Mendelssohniana: Letters at Aberystwyth." Current Musicology 65 (2001): 116-40.
  7. "Introduction to F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy, a collection of the composer’s watercolors and drawings." No. 7 in the art series of the Atelier Mujinkan in Japanese and English  (Tokyo, Oneiros, 1992).
  8. "From the Composer’s Workshop: Two Little-Known Fugues by Mendelssohn." The Musical Times 131 (1990): 183-87.
  9. "A Mendelssohn Miscellany." Music & Letters 71 (1990): 52-63.
  10. "The Unwelcome Guest Regaled: Franz Liszt and the Augmented Triad." 19th Century Music 12 (1988): 93-115.
  11. "Mendelssohn’s Fugue in F Minor: A Discarded Movement from the First Organ Sonata." The Organ Yearbook 14 (1983): 61-77. With Robert C. Parkins.
  12. "A Passion Cantata by Mendelssohn." American Choral Review 25 (1983): 1-17.
  13. "Report of the First International Mendelssohn-Schumann Conference." Music Review 43 (1982): 135-36.
  14. "An Unfinished Piano Concerto by Mendelssohn." The Musical Quarterly 68 (1982): 80-101.
  15. "Liszt, Fantasy and Fugue for Organ on Ad nos, ad salutarem undam." 19th Century Music 4 (1981): 250-61.
  16. "A Sonata by Mendelssohn." Piano Quarterly 29 (1980-81): 30-41.
  17. "An Unfinished Symphony by Mendelssohn." Music & Letters 61 (1980): 293-309.
  18. "Haydn and the Sturm und Drang: A Revaluation." Music Review 41 (1980): 172-96.
  19. "The Genesis of Webern’s Opus 32." The Musical Quarterly 66 (1980): 581-91.
  20. "Of Sea Gulls and Counterpoint: The Early Version of Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture." 19th Century Music 2 (1979): 197-213.
  21. "Retrograde, Inversion, Retrograde-Inversion and Related Techniques in the Masses of Obrecht." The Musical Quarterly 64 (1978): 50-78.

Articles in Books

  1. R. Larry Todd. ""Mendelssohnian Allusions in the Early Piano Works of William Sterndale Bennett"." The Piano in Nineteenth-Century British Culture. Edited by Therese Ellsworth and Susan Wollenberg. Ashgate 2007: 101-18.
  2. R. Larry Todd. ""Die Matthäus-Passion--Widerhall und Wirkung in Mendelssohns Musik"." Zu groß, zu unerreichbar: Bach-Rezeption im Zeitalter Mendelssohn und Schumanns. Edited by Anselm Hartinger, Christoph Wolff, and Peter Wollny. Breitkopf & Haetel 2007: 79-97.
  3. "Mendelssohn entry." The Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology. Edited by J. R. Watson. Canterbury Press in press.
  4. R. Todd. "Nineteenth-century concertos for strings and winds." Cambridge Companion to the Concerto. Edited by Simon Keefe. Cambridge University Press 2005: 118-138.
  5. R. L. Todd. "Zu Mendelssohns 'Allegro brilliant' op. 92: ein Duo für Clara Schumann." Dem Stolz und der Zierde unserer Stadt: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy und Leipzig. Edited by William Seidel., Leipzig, Edition Peters 2004: 249-60. Erste Mendelssohn-Fest, IX. Internationales Gewandhaus-Symposium 1997
  6. R. L. Todd. "On Mendelssohn's Sacred Music, Real and Imaginary." Cambridge Mendelssohn Companion. Edited by Peter Mercer-Taylor. Cambridge Univ. Press 2004: 167-188.
  7. "Ein wenig still und scheu: Clara Wieck/Schumann as Colleague of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy." Schumanniana Nova: Festschrift Gerd Nauhaus zum 60. Geburtstag. Edited by Bernhard R. Appel, Ute Bar and Matthias Wendt. Sinzig, Studio Verlag 2002: 767-784.
  8. "On Stylistic Affinities between the Music of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy." The Mendelssohns: Their Music in History. Edited by J. Michael Cooper. N. Y., Oxford University Press 2002: 245-61.
  9. "Mendelssohn." New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd ed London: Macmillan 2001: 389-424. Vol. 16
  10. "Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Overture to Elijah, Arrangement for Piano Duet (1847)." Music History from Primary Sources: A Guide to the Moldenhauer Archives. Edited by Jon Newsom and Alfred Mann. Washington, Library of Congress 2000: 313-20.
  11. "Three articles on Opp. 1, 9, and 119." The Complete Brahms. Edited by Leon Botstein. Norton 1999: 156-59, 165-67, 195-97.
  12. "The Chamber Music of Mendelssohn." 19th-Century Chamber Music. Edited by Stephen Hefling. New York: Schirmer Books, Macmillan 1998: 170-205.
  13. "On the Visual in Mendelssohn's Music." Cari amici: Festschrift 25 Jahre Carus-Verlag. Edited by B. Mohn and H. Ryschawy. Stuttgart 1997: 115-24.
  14. "On Mendelssohn's Operatic Destiny: Die Lorelei Reconsidered." Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Kongreß-Bericht Berlin 1994. Edited by C. M. Schmidt. Wiesbaden, Breitkopf & Haertel 1997: 113-40.
  15. R. Todd. "Mendelssohn." Nineteenth-Century Symphony. Edited by Kern Holoman. New York: Schirmer Books, Macmillan 1996: 78-107.
  16. "New Light on Mendelssohn’s Freie Phantasie (1840)." Literary and Musical Notes: Wm. A. Little Festschrift. Edited by G. C. Orth. Bern, Peter Lang 1995: 205-18.
  17. "On Quotation in Schumann’s Music." Schumann and His World : 80-112.
  18. "Strauss before Liszt and Wagner: Some Observations." Richard Strauss: New Perspectives on the Composer and His Works. Edited by Bryan Gilliam. Duke University Press 1992: 3-40.
  19. "Me voilà perruqué: Mendelssohn’s Six Preludes and Fugues Op. 35 Reconsidered." Mendelssohn Studies : 162-99.
  20. "Gerade das Lied wie es dasteht: On Text and Meaning in Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte." Musical Humanism and Its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Claude Palisca. Edited by Nancy K. Baker. Stuyvesant: Pendragon Press 1992: 355-79.
  21. "The Unfinished Mendelssohn." Mendelssohn and His World : 158-84.
  22. "Mendelssohn." St. James Guide to Biography Chicago: St. James Press 1991: 527-29.
  23. "Mozart according to Mendelssohn: A Contribution to Rezeptionsgeschichte." Perspectives on Mozart Performance : 158-203.
  24. "Piano Music Reformed: The Case of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy." Nineteenth-Century Piano Music 1990: 178-220. Reprinted in Douglass Seaton, ed., The Mendelssohn Companion (Westport, Greenwood Press, 2001), 579-620.
  25. "Franz Liszt, Carl Friedrich Weitzmann and the Augmented Triad." The Second Practice of Nineteenth-Century Tonality. Edited by W. Kinderman and H. Krebs. University of Nebraska Press 1988: 153-77. Revision of "The Unwelcome Guest Regaled".
  26. "Orchestral Texture and the Art of Orchestration." The Orchestra: Origins and Transformations. Edited by Joan Peyser. New York: Scribner's 1986: 191-226.
  27. "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy." The New Grove Early Romantic Masters 2 London: Macmillan 1985: 199-301. Responsible for corrections to text and substantial corrections and additions to catalogue of works and bibliography for article originally written for The New Grove Dictionary of Music (1980) by specialists in Germany-DDR; updated Italian edition published by G. Ricordi in 1989.
  28. "Mendelssohn." Ch. 4 of The Heritage of Music, vol. 5. Edited by Ludwig Finscher. Oxford University Press 1984: 183-94. Japanese translation published 1985.
  29. "Mendelssohn’s Ossianic Manner, with a New Source—On Lena's Gloomy Heath." Mendelssohn and Schumann Essays 1984: 137-60, 181-83.

Music Editions

  1.  Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Baerenreiter Urtext: Konzert in e-Moll, Op. 64 1844/1845.  edited by R. Larry Todd Baerenreiter, Kassel, Germany, 2005 (xxii+190pp. pp.). (the first critical edition of Mendelssohn's violin concerto to present the original (1844) and final (1845) versions; published in full score, piano reduction, and parts)
  2. R. L. Todd. Fanny Hensel's Piano Music.  Dover Publications, Mineola, N.Y., 2004 (iv+59pp. pp.). (Musical edition in press, a volume of Fanny Hensel's piano music, including a preface and facsimiles of first editions of 1846 and 1847 from the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and Deutsche Staatsbibliohtek, Berlin, to be published by Dover Publications, Mineola, N.Y. in 2004, in a series that includes volumes of Amy Beach and Clara Schumann)

Reviews

  1. R. Larry Todd, Florestan Trio (Hyperion Label) recording of the Mendelssohn Piano Trios. Nineteenth-Century Music Review  (2007).
  2. R. Larry Todd, Mendelssohn, Die erste Walpurgisnacht, facsimile of the autograph piano-vocal score, ed. Hiromi Hoshino, Tokyo, 2005. Music Library Association Notes  (2007).
  3. R. L. Todd, Die Schöne Melusine.   (2003). (Christoper Hogwood's edition of Mendelssohn, Die Schöne Melusine (Bärenreiter,2003), for Nineteenth-Century Music Review; commissioned by Jeremy Dibble of the University of Durham)
  4. R. L. Todd, Motives for Allusion.   (2003). (Book Review commissioned for Nineteenth- Century Music Review, of Christopher Alan Reynolds, Motives for Allusion: Context and Content in Nineteenth-Century Music, Harvard, 2003)
  5. Carl Maria von Weber, Samtliche Werke: Kirchenmusik. Music Library Association Notes 57:4 (2001): 999-10001.
  6. Niels W. Gade, Werke. Music Library Association Notes 54/4  (June, 1996): 982-84.

CD Liner Notes

  1. R. Todd. Notes for the Emerson String Quartet Mendelssohn cycle, Carnegie Hall, N.Y. 2005 . (Concerts of Feb. 15, March 22, April 5, and April 19, 2005.)
  2. R. Todd. The String Quartets of Mendelssohn.  Deutsche Grammophon, 2005 . (notes for the Emerson String Quartet recording of the complete Mendelssohn quartets for Deutsche Grammophon (4 Cds, 00289 477 5370))
  3. R. L. Todd. Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Piano Trios.  Musica omnia, 2001 .
  4. R. L. Todd. Songs without Words (Mendelssohn, Schubert/Liszt, Busoni).  Sony Classical, 1999 .
  5. R. L. Todd. Mendelssohn, Symphonies Nos. 4 (Original and Revised Versions) and 5.  DGG, 1998 .
  6. R. Todd. Mendelssohn, Paulus.  Arabesque, 1998 .
  7. R. L. Todd. Mendelssohn, Piano Concerto in E minor, Robert Schumann, Konzertsatz for piano and orchestra, Clara Schumann, Piano Sonata in G minor.  Koch International, 1996 .
  8. R. L. Todd. Mendelssohn: Composer of the Month. August, 1995 (39-42 pp.).
  9. R. L. Todd. Mendelssohn, String Symphonies Nos. 8, 9, and 10.  DGG, 1993 .
  10. R. L. Todd. Mendelssohn, Violin Sonatas.  DGG, 1987 .

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