期刊名称：International Review of the Aesthetics and Sociology of Music
印刷版ISSN：0351-5796
出版年度：2006
卷号：37
期号：2
页码：157-166
出版社：Hrvatsko muzikološko društvo, Razred za glazbenu umjetnost i muzikologiju HAZU, Sveučilište u Zagrebu – Muzička akademija
摘要：In Aesthetic Realism, founded by Eli Siegel, a methodology exists through which biographers can understand the central ethical conflict in the life of every person: the fight between the desire to increase respect for the world and other people, or increase contempt for them. Felix Mendelssohn’s life illustrates this. This paper focuses on his relations with his sister, Fanny; his teacher, Carl Friedrich Zelter; and the contemporary who most deeply troubled him - Hector Berlioz. In each instance, this question arose for Mendelssohn: whether to have more feeling, or less; welcome a larger notion of reality, or be content with something more constrained. It is precisely the question that, in a technical form, was crucial to his art. In keeping with this, a hypothesis is presented concerning the Italian Symphony and Mendelssohn’s inability ever to consider it finished. It is suggested that, unconsciously, his shame about indulging in contempt for the Italian people prevented him from appreciating his own work accurately.
关键词：Mendelssohn; Eli Siegel; Aesthetic Realism; Italian Symphony; Berlioz; Zelter; Fanny Mendelssohn; Contempt; Respect; Ethics; Biography
