Talk
POSTPONED - Mendelssohn’s oratorios in the W.T. Freemantle Collection
19 Mar 2020
Regular hours
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 17:00
Address
- Parkinson Building
- Woodhouse Lane
- Leeds
England - LS2 9JT
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- A number of bus services run from the city centre to the Parkinson Building. Take bus numbers 1, 6, 28, 56, or 97. Ask for the “Parkinson steps” bus stop.
- The galleries are 1.1 miles from Leeds Railway Station. The station is about a 20-minute walk, 15-minute bus ride, or 10-minute taxi ride away from the Parkinson Building.
Join Dr Bryan White for an exploration of Mendelssohn's work, drawing upon the musical collections of W.T. Freemantle.
About
Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorios helped to establish his international reputation as a composer. Oratorios are large-scale, narrative musical works for orchestra, soloists and choir. Discover their performance history and how two of his oratorios, “St Paul” and “Elijah”, were received in England.
This talk uses items collected by W.T. Freemantle, who was a Sheffield organist and music collector. His collection is now part of the Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds.
Key items in the collection include a handwritten score of “St Paul”. There is also a programme from the 1837 Birmingham Festival, where Mendelssohn conducted “St Paul” for the first time in England. These and other items show how much his music fascinated English music lovers of the nineteenth century.
