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John Michael Cooper, Mendelssohn, Goethe, and the Walpurgis Night: The Heathen Muse in European Culture, 1700–1850, Eastman Studies in Music (Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2007). xvii + 284 pp. $75.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2011

James Garratt
James Garratt
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University of Manchester
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Nineteenth-Century Music Review , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , November 2008 , pp. 109 - 112
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References

1 Cooper, John Michael, Mendelssohn's ‘Italian’ Symphony (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).Google Scholar

2 Cooper's edition of the earliest version, hitherto unpublished, is a valuable adjunct to his monograph: Die erste Walpurgisnacht: First Complete Version, 1832–33 (Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 2007).

3 Metzger, Heinz-Klaus, ‘Noch einmal: Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Versuch einer anderen Allegorese’, Musik-Konzept 14–15: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, ed. Metzger, and Riehn, Rainer (Munich, 1980): 93–6 (94),Google Scholar as quoted in Sposato, Jeffrey S., The Price of Assimilation: Felix Mendelssohn and the Nineteenth-Century Anti-Semitic Tradition (New York: Oxford University Press, 2006): 110Google Scholar.

4 Sposato, , Price of Assimilation, 112.Google Scholar