Facets of compositional reflection. The dedications to Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

这个项目将集中在一个问题，是否可以通过分析致力于他的作品检测门德尔松的特定图像。假定，一个奉献总是带有一定的信息，专用的作品将被分析关于特定的音乐反射，持有音乐材料中的象征意义。奉献的过程不仅指向作者，而且指向收件人。因此，音乐是作为一种命名的收件人-假设奉献被接受-并反映了音乐风格的方面，由门德尔松本人使用或代表。这些作品可以被理解为副文本来源，在热拉尔·热内特奉献理论的意义上。这意味着，作品往往反映了作曲家和收信人之间的私人，象征或智力关系，强烈影响他们在公共话语中的接受。此外，本计画将探讨奉献现象完成奉献过程的沟通力量。作为一个出发点，将重建奉献行为的历史和理论基础。在下一步中，组成和接受美学的方面将被审查，关于门德尔松的奉献。此外，本研究将探讨围绕门德尔松的献词网络的结构：哪位作曲家将哪部作品献给他？他为什么和什么时候这样做的？仔细研究这种关系的确切性质，就会得出有趣的结论，例如作曲家选择的体裁，以荣誉门德尔松作为朋友，老师或恩人。研究的核心将是分析检测到的奉献关于他们假设的门德尔松工作的反映。根据这些分析结果，将在其公共意义的背景下审查这些奉献。重点将放在当代媒体，特别是音乐出版社，这对奉献进程产生了相当大的影响。因此，奉献的方面将不仅作为一个组成的现象，但作为一个接收本身的一部分进行审查。有了这个访问，门德尔松的奉献将首次以多视角的方式进行研究，为世纪国际作曲家提供新的视角。

This project will focus on the question whether one can detect a specific image of Mendelssohn by analyzing the works that were dedicated to him. Presuming, that a dedication always bears a certain message, the dedicated works will be analyzed with regard to specific musical reflections, holding an emblematic meaning within the musical material. The process of dedication does not only point to the author, but to the addressee. Thus, the music was composed as a denomination to the addressee - assumed the dedication was accepted - and reflected aspects of a musical style, employed or represented by Mendelssohn himself. The compositions can be understood as paratextual sources, in the sense of Gérard Genettes theory of dedication. This means, that the compositions often reflect private, symbolic or intellectual relations between the composer and the addressee, influencing strongly their reception in the public discourse. Moreover, this project will investigate the communicative force of the phenomenon of dedication completing the process of dedication. As a starting point, the historical and theoretical basics of the act of dedicating will be reconstructed. In the next step, the aspects of composition and aesthetic of reception will be examined, with regard to the dedications made to Mendelssohn. Furthermore, the study will examine the structure of the network of dedications surrounding Mendelssohn: Which composer dedicated which work to him? Why and when did he do so? A close look at the exact nature of the relations will allow interesting conclusions about for example the genre the composer chose, to honor Mendelssohn as a friend, teacher or benefactor. The core of the study will then be to analyze the detected dedications regarding their assumed reflection of Mendelssohns work. With these analytical results, the dedications will be examined within the context of their public meaning. The focus will lie on the contemporary media, especially the musical press, which had a considerable influence on the process of dedication. Thus, the aspect of dedication will not only be examined as a compositional phenomenon, but as a part of the reception itself. With this access, the dedications to Mendelssohn will be studied for the first time in a multiperspective way, shedding new light on a composer operating internationally during the 19th Century.