Books
Nicole Grimes and Angela R. Mace, eds. Mendelssohn Perspectives. Aldershot: Ashgate (2012). LINK
John Michael Cooper, 2nd. edition revised and enlarged by Angela R. Mace. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: A Research and Information Guide. New York: Routledge (2011). LINK
Refereed Journal Articles
Angela Mace Christian (2022). “The Easter Sonata of Fanny Mendelssohn (1828),” Journal of Musicological Research, 41:3, 182-209. LINK
Angela Mace Christian. “Fanny Hensel geb. Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Amateur or Professional? A closer look at the chronology of her compositional output.” Mendelssohn-Studien 20 (2017): 153-79. LINK
Angela R. Mace. “Mendelssohn, Bartholomew, and the Elijah Correspondence.” Ars Lyrica 19 (2010): 93-111.
R. Larry Todd and Angela R. Mace. “Mendelssohn and the Free Chorale.” Mendelssohn's 200th Anniversary Focus Issue I, Choral Journal 49/9 (March 2009): 49-69. LINK
Book Chapters
Angela Mace Christian. “Sibling Love and the Daemonic: Contradictions in the Relationship between Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn,” in Rethinking Mendelssohn, ed. Benedict Taylor, 140-57. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2020). LINK
Angela Mace Christian. “‘Der Jüngling und Das Mädchen’: Fanny Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn, and the Zwölf Lieder, op. 9,” in Women and the Nineteenth-Century Lied, ed. Aisling Kenny and Susan Wollenberg, 63-84. Aldershot: Ashgate (2015). LINK
Angela R. Mace. “Improvisation, Elaboration, Composition: The Mendelssohns and the Classical Cadenza,” in Mendelssohn Perspectives, ed. Nicole Grimes and Angela R. Mace, 223-48. Aldershot: Ashgate (2012). LINK
Conference Proceedings
Angela Mace Christian. “The Nocturne, the Lied ohne Worte, and the Development of the Character Piece in the Nineteenth Century,” in Nineteenth-Century Programme Music: Creation, Negotiations, Reception, ed. Jonathan Kregor, 323-39. Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols (2018). LINK
Angela Mace Christian. “’Der sauersten Apfel’ – Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy und die Familie in Berlin.” Mendelssohn-Studien Sonderband 3 “250 Jahre Familie Mendelssohn” (2014): 131-42. LINK
Angela Mace Christian. “Reinterpreting the Classical Concerto through the Romantic Cadenza.” Basler Jahrbuch für Historische Musikpraxis 34 (2010): 199-206. LINK
Encyclopedia Entries
Angela Mace Christian. "Hensel [née Mendelssohn (-Bartholdy)], Fanny Cäcilie." Grove Music Online, November 2017. LINK
Angela Mace Christian. “Sonate (Doppelsonate) D-Dur, für zwei Klaviere, MWV S 1.” In Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Interpretationen seiner Werke, Vol. I, ed. Matthias Geuting, 1-5. Laaber: Laaber-Verlag (2015). LINK
Book, Score, and CD Reviews
Christian, A. (2022). Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Lobgesang: Eine Symphonie-Kantate nach Worten der Heiligen Schrift (Hymn of Praise: A Symphony-Cantata after Texts from the Holy Scripture), MWV A 18 / Op. 52. Bärenreiter Urtext, 2020. xxxvii 304 pp. Introduction, Tables, 3 facsimiles, Critical Report. Edited by John Michael Cooper. Nineteenth-Century Music Review, 1-5. LINK
Angela Mace Christian (2022). “The Songs of Fanny Hensel,” Journal of Musicological Research, 41:1, 50-53. LINK
Felix Mendelssohn. Lieder ohne Worte. Javier Perianes, pianoforte. Harmonia Mundi 902195, 2014. Nineteenth-Century Music Review 13/2 (October 2016): 378-80. LINK
Wm. A. Little. Mendelssohn and the Organ. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. Notes 68/3 (March 2012): 606-608. LINK
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Die erste Walpurgisnacht, First complete version of 1832-33, ed. John Michael Cooper. Recent Researches in Music of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. Madison, Wisconsin: A-R Editions, 2008. Nineteenth Century Music Review 7/2 (August 2010): 157-159. LINK
Siegwart Reichwald, ed. Mendelssohn in Performance. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008. Nineteenth Century Music Review 7/1 (July 2010): 128-131. LINK
Georg Friedrich Händel. Israel in Ägpyten, arr. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Perf. Hermann Max, Kleine Konzert. CPO 777 222-2, 2009. Early Music America 15/3 (Fall 2009): 20.
Anton Eberl. The Complete Sonatas for Solo Piano. John Khouri, fortepiano. Music & Arts 1221, 2009. Early Music America 15/2 (Summer 2009): 15.
Other Publications
Paul-André Bempechat. Scholarly Journeys Towards Gustav Mahler: Festschrift in Honour of Henry-Louis de La Grange on His Ninetieth Birthday. Peter Lang, 2015. Editorial Assistant. LINK
Angela R. Mace and R. Larry Todd. “Verzeichnis der Werke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys” in R. Larry Todd, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy: Sein Leben, Seine Musik (Stuttgart: Carus-Verlag/Reclam, 2008), 719-748. Co-author. LINK
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS, INTERNSHIPS
Professional Development Program grant, Colorado State University (2014)
2013 Professional Development Program grant, Colorado State University (2013)
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Graduate Research Intern(2011-13)
2012 Artist Collaboration Grant, Duke University (2012)
2011 Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, Duke University (2011)
2010-11 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Humboldt-Universität (2010-11)
2010 Fulbright Scholarship (alternate), Germany (2010)
2009-10 Julian Price Endowed Graduate Research Fellowship, Duke University (2009-10)
2009-10 Pre-Dissertation Research Travel Award, Duke University (2009-10)
2006-09 Graduate Research and Teaching Fellowship, Duke University (2006-09)
SELECTED MEDIA/BLOG APPEARANCES
Pamela Toler, “Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Angela Mace Christian,” blog, History in the Margins (2020) LINK
WAM! Women in Art Music, “Fanny Mendelssohn: An Interview with Dr. Angela Mace Christian,” Rutgers University, Mason-Gross School of the Arts (2019) LINK
Angela Mace Christian. Invited blog post, “What Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel tells us about women’s music,” OUPBlog: Oxford University Press’s Academic Insights for the Thinking World (2018) LINK
Live interview with Sean Rafferty of BBC Radio 3 (London, UK) for the “In Tune” program, March 7, 2017, about the UK premiere of Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn’s “Easter Sonata.” I also appeared at the Afternoon on 3 broadcast concert from the Royal College of Music, March 8. Sofya Gulyak performed the “Easter Sonata” of Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn, using the edition I made of that work. These appearances were part of the International Women’s Day 2017 celebrations hosted by BBC Radio 3.
Interview with Tara Lynn of WCPE radio (Durham, North Carolina) for the “Preview” program about my rediscovery of the manuscript for and world premiere of Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn’s “Easter Sonata” under her own name. September 2, 2012.
Live interview with Frank Stasio of WUNC radio (Durham, North Carolina) for the “The State of Things” program about my rediscovery of the manuscript for and world premiere of Fanny Hensel née Mendelssohn’s “Easter Sonata” under her own name. October 3, 2012.
TALKS, PANELS, AND CONFERENCES ORGANIZED
“Mendelssohn and the Lied.” 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. Rochester, New York. November 9-12, 2017.
Organized and chaired by Angela Mace Christian. Speakers: Susan Youens, Stephen Rodgers, Harald Krebs, and Jennifer Ronyak.
“Urtext as Empowerment: From Notation to Edition to Performance.”
Invited Dr. John Michael Cooper (Southwestern University) as guest lecturer at Colorado State University. April 4, 2016.
New Perspectives on Fidelio at Its Bicentenary. 81st Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. Louisville, KY. November 12-15, 2015.
Organized by Paul-André Bempechat (founder of the Lyrica Society) and Angela Mace Christian (head editor, Ars Lyrica: Journal of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations). Speakers: Michael Tusa, Abby Anderton, and John David Wilson; respondent: Peter Laki; chair: Angela Mace Christian.
Annual Rocky Mountain Scholars Meeting, a joint conference of the American Musicological Society-Rocky Mountain Chapter, Society for Music Theory-Rocky Mountain Chapter, and the Society for Ethnomusicology-Southwest Chapter. Colorado State University. March 27-28, 2015.
Organized by Dawn Grapes (chapter president), Angela Mace Christian (chapter secretary-treasurer), Bryan Christian (SMT liaison), and Kate Benessa (local arrangements). Two-day conference with ca. 90 attendees and featuring Philip Bohlman (University of Chicago) as the keynote speaker.
Fanny Hensel Rediscovered. Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. September 7, 2012.
Symposium organized by Angela R. Mace and R. Larry Todd to announce Mace’s rediscovery of the manuscript for Fanny Hensel’s “Easter Sonata.”
Speakers: invited guest speaker Susan Youens (Notre Dame), R. Larry Todd (Duke), and Angela R. Mace (Duke). In conjunction with Duke Performances, with the support of the Duke University Artist Collaboration Grant (Office of the Provost for the Arts), the Duke University Department of Music, and Duke University Women’s Studies.
Symposium followed by a United States premiere performance of the “Easter Sonata” by Andrea Lam of the Claremont Trio. September 7, 2012.
Studientag zu Fanny Hensel und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Mendelssohn-Remise, Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany. (Study Day on Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy.) March 12, 2011.
Organized by Thomas Lackmann (head of the Mendelssohn-Remise, a Mendelssohn family museum and event space in Berlin) and Angela R. Mace (as DAAD fellow in Berlin, 2010-2011). Speakers: Roland Schmidt-Hensel (Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, head of the Mendelssohn-Archiv), R. Larry Todd (Duke), Angela R. Mace (Duke), Hans-Günter Klein (former head of the Mendelssohn-Archiv). Performers: Andreas Lisius, Angela Mace, and Elzbieta Sternlicht, piano. Kathleen Brandhofer, soprano. The Friedrichstädter Vokalensemble, choir.
Romantic Falsification or Justifiable Transformation? Performing and Understanding Bach in the Era of Mendelssohn. Lecture-Recital presented by Anselm Hartinger (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/Bach-Archiv Leipzig), speaker, with Angela R. Mace (Duke), piano and Katharina Uhde (Duke), violin. May 5, 2010.
Organized by Angela R. Mace and R. Larry Todd. Duke University, Bone Hall.
CONFERENCE PAPERS PRESENTED
Conference presentation, “Monuments at War: Wagner vs. Mendelssohn.” International Conference on Wagner and Mendelssohn. Leipzig, Germany. June 23-25, 2022.
Conference presentation, “Monuments at War: Wagner vs. Mendelssohn.” American Musicological Society, Capital Chapter. October 23, 2021.
“Zemlinsky’s Lyrische Symphonie: An Homage to Mahler.” Nineteenth-Century Studies Association, conference theme “Memory and Commemoration.” Charleston, SC. February 4, 2017.
“‘Painting Individual and Deep-Seated Emotions’: The Nocturne, the Lied ohne Worte, and the Development of the Character Piece in the Nineteenth Century.” Nineteenth-Century Programme Music International Conference, organized by Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini. Lucca, Italy, Complesso Monumentale di San Micheletto. November 25-27, 2016.
“Ludwig Berger, John Field, and the Dissemination of the Nocturne Style.” The Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society – Rocky Mountain Chapter. University of New Mexico – Albuquerque. April 22-23, 2016.
"Mendelssohn's English-Language Vocal Works and British Wartime Identity." The Lyrica Dialogues of the Lyrica Society for Word-Music Relations. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. November 21, 2014.
"Fathers, Brothers, Husbands, and Music: Family Dynamics, Sibling Relations, and the ‘Question of Incest’ in the Letters of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel." 38th Annual Meeting the German Studies Association. Kansas City, Missouri. September 18-21, 2014.
"Fathers, Brothers, Husbands, and Music: Family Dynamics, Sibling Relations, and the ‘Question of Incest’ in the Letters of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel." The Annual Meeting the American Musicological Society – Rocky Mountain Chapter. Arizona State University, Tucson, Arizona. April 4-5, 2014.
“Negotiating Private and Public Personas in the Sonntagsmusiken of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel.” 37th Annual Meeting of the German Studies Association, Denver, Colorado. October 3-6, 2013.
“The Mendelssohns and the Mystery of the ‘Easter Sonata’.” 78th Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society, New Orleans, Louisiana. November 2-5, 2012.
“The Discovery of the Easter Sonata.” Fanny Hensel Rediscovered, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. September 7, 2012.
“Der Sauerste Apfel: Felix und die Berliner Familie.” Mendelssohn-Kongreß 2012, “250 Jahre Familie Mendelssohn.” Hosted by the Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft Berlin at the Mendelssohn-Remise and Centrum Judaicum (Neue Synagoge), Berlin, Germany. June 19-21, 2012.
“Bittersweet Authorship: Fanny Hensel as Professional Composer.” Videmus@25, conference on classical music of women, African American, and under-represented composers. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. March 21-25, 2012.
“The Emergence of Fanny Hensel and the ‘Henselian’ Style.” 9th Annual Conference of the Society for Musicology in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy of Music, Dublin. June 24-26, 2011.
“Unterschiede in Kompositionen von Fanny Hensel und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy,” mit Musikbeispielen. Studientag zu Fanny Hensel und Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Mendelssohn-Remise, Mendelssohn-Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany. (“Differences in the Compositions of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” with musical examples. Study Day on Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy). March 12, 2011.
“Improvisation, Elaboration, Composition: Reimagining the Classical Concerto in the Romantic Cadenza.” Conference, “Werk – Werkstatt – Handwerk: Neue Zugänge zum Material der Alten Musik” (Work – Workshop – Craft: New Perspectives on the Materials of Old Music.”) Annual Conference, Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Basel, Switzerland. November 18-20, 2010.
“The Mendelssohns and the Mystery of the ‘Easter Sonata’.” 16th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth Century Music. University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. July 8-11, 2010.
“Mendelssohn, Bartholomew, and the Elijah Correspondence, Reconsidered.” Conference, “Brahms, Mendelssohn, and the German Choral Tradition.” Harvard-Lyrica Dialogues. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. April 30-May 1, 2010.
“Mendelssohn, Bartholomew, and the Elijah Correspondence, Reconsidered.” “Der verkannte Komponist – kritische Überlegungen zur Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy-Rezeption vom neunzehnten Jahrhundert bis heute” (“The Hidden Composer – Critical Views on Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Reception from the Nineteenth Century to this Day”). Hosted by Moses Mendelssohn Zentrum Potsdam, in cooperation with the Usedom Music Festival 2009, Heringsdorf auf Usedom, Germany. September 13-15, 2009.
“Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, William Bartholomew, and the Elijah Correspondence, Reconsidered.” “Viewing Mendelssohn, Viewing Elijah: Assimilation, Interpretation, and Culture.” Arizona State University, Tempe. April 29-May 1, 2009.
“Reception of Felix Mendelssohn’s ‘Hear My Prayer’ in England.” Third Biennial Conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, York University, Toronto, Canada. July 31-August 3, 2008.
“Hunting in the Nineteenth-Century Salon: Ludwig Berger, Fanny Mendelssohn, Franz Schubert, and ‘Die schöne Müllerin’.” Southeast Chapter of the American Musicological Society, University of North Carolina-Charlotte. February 9, 2008.
“Ludwig Berger’s Role in the Education of Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, Reconsidered.” Fifth Annual Conference of the South Central Graduate Music Consortium, Duke University. September 7-8, 2007.
“A New Cadenza by Fanny Hensel for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 15.” Southeast Chapter of the American Musicological Society, East Carolina University. Greenville, North Carolina. February 24, 2007.
DISCUSSANT
Q&A, North American Premiere of Fanny: The Other Mendelssohn (Mercury Studios, 2023). at DOCNYC Film Festival, 13 November 2023 and 14 November 2023.
Historical Context/Commentary, piano recital of Tzuyi “Zoey” Chen, “Tributes to Great Musicians During Wartime.” National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C., August 26, 2018.
“Mendelssohn’s Overture to A Midsummer Night’s Dream in England.” Symposium, Incidental Dreaming: Hearing Shakespeare and Seeing Mendelssohn in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Duke University. April 14, 2009.
SESSIONS CHAIRED
Session Chair, “Wagner and Cultural Politics.” Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society. November 20, 2021.
“Religion, Culture, Society, and Politics.” Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society - Rocky Mountain Chapter. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO. March 27, 2015.
“Schubert and the Keyboard.” 18th Biennial Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music. University of Toronto, Canada. June 18, 2014.
“Musicology Beyond the Boundaries.” Conference of the College Music Society - Rocky Mountain Chapter. Metropolitan State University Denver, Colorado. March 21, 2014.
“Into the Domestic Sphere: Problems in the Reception of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel,” by Marian Wilson Kimber. Conference, “Mendelssohn in Montana.” Montana State University, Bozeman. March 28, 2009.
SEE ALSO: Sessions & Conferences Organized
UNIVERSITY TALKS
“Fanny Hensel” guest lecture in R. Larry Todd graduate seminar, “Women in Music.” Duke University, Durham, NC, October 10, 2023.
“Fanny Hensel” guest lecture in Laurie McManus undergraduate seminar “Women in Music.” Shendandoah Conservatory, Winchester, VA, March 24, 2023.
“The Nocturne, the Lied ohne Worte, and the Development of the Character Piece in the Nineteenth Century.” Catholic University of America music colloquium series, Washington, D.C. October 25, 2017.
“Dialogues with Power.” Joint lecture/recital with Prof. Ellie Moseman (art historian) and Joel Bacon (harpsichord) in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Music in the Musuem series. Colorado State University, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. April 18, 2017.
Collaborative class lecture in Prof. Ellie Moseman’s 19th Century European Art class discussing composers Felix and Fanny Mendelssohn, artist Caspar David Friedrich, and the German Wald (forest) in the 19th century. Colorado State University, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. September 15, 2016.
"Family Dynamics, Sibling Relations, and the ‘Question of Incest’ in the Letters of Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel." Faculty Research Forum, Colorado State University, School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. April 25, 2014.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES (PIANO, FORTEPIANO, ORGAN)
Lecture/Recital, “Fanny Hensel’s Life through her Music,” invited by the Delta Omicron International Music Fraternity Zeta Zeta chapter, Denver, CO. March 20, 2016.
Performed six songs (piano, accompanied various singers) and a solo piano piece by Fanny Hensel, ca. 1 hour, 30 minutes.
Fanny Hensel, Notturno in G minor. Piano. Videmus@25, conference on classical music of women, African American, and under-represented composers. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. March 25, 2012.
Selected Lieder ohne Worte of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy and works of Fanny Hensel. Piano. Coordinated with readings from letters between the Mendelssohns, organized by Susanne Scherrer. Mendelssohn-Remise, Berlin, Germany. July 9, 2011.
Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, arrangements of J. S. Bach’s solo violin works, Prelude in E major and Chaconne in D minor, for piano and violin, Katharina Uhde, violin, Angela R. Mace, piano. For lecture/recital “Romantic Falsification or Justifiable Transformation? Performing and Understanding Bach in the Era of Mendelssohn.” Presented by Anselm Hartinger (Schola Cantorum Basiliensis/Bach-Archiv Leipzig), lecture organized by Angela R. Mace and R. Larry Todd. Duke University, Bone Hall. May 5, 2010.
Hensel, Mendelssohn, and Schumann lieder, to open the symposium “Incidental Dreaming: Hearing Shakespeare and Seeing Mendelssohn in A Midsummer Night's Dream.” Jung Oh, soprano, Teresa Buchholz, mezzo-soprano, Angela R. Mace, piano. Nelson Music Room, Duke University. April 14, 2009.
Early Romantic Organ Music (S. Wesley, A. W. Bach, Richter, Merkel, Mendelssohn, Hensel, R. Schumann). Duke University Chapel, Flentrop Organ (1976). December 8, 2008.
Three Scarlatti sonatas. Fortepiano. Global Scarlatti Marathon, International Festival of Spanish Keyboard Music. Duke University, Bone Hall. December 1, 2006.
LANGUAGES
English Native speaker
German Read, write, speak (Fluent)
French Read (fair)
INSTRUMENTS
Piano
Fortepiano
Organ
Voice, choir alto