Part I: Sources and source problems
'It seems to have been lost': on missing and recovered Mendelssohn sources / Ralf Wehner
Editorial problems in Mendelssohn's organ preludes, op.37 / Pietro Zappalà
Mendelssohn's two infelice arias: problems of sources and musical identity / John Michael Cooper
Part II: Individual works
Mendelssohn's first composition / Peter Ward Jones
Programme of Mendelssohn's 'reformation' symphony, op.107 / Wolfgang Dinglinger
Kindred spirits: Mendelssohn and Goethe, Die erste Walpurgisnacht / Julie D. Prandi
Just how 'Scottish' is the 'Scottish' symphony? Thoughts on form and poetic content in Mendelssohn's Opus 56 / Thomas Schmidt-Beste
'Indessen wollte ich mich Ihnen gern gefällig beweisen': on some occasional works, with an unknown composition by Mendelssohn / Christoph Hellmundt
'So kann ich es nicht componiren': Mendelssohn, opera, and the libretto problem / Monika Hennemann
Mendelssohn's cycles of songs / Douglass Seaton
Similarities and differences in the artistic development of Fanny and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in a family context: observations based on the early Berlin autograph volumes / Hans-Günter Klein
On stylistic affinities in the works of Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy / R. Larry Todd
Virtuoso texture in Fanny Hensel's piano music / Camilla Cai
Felix Mendelssohn and Fanny Hensel: the search for perfection in opposing private and public worlds / Françoise Tillard
Part V: Reception history
Felix Mendelssohn and his place in the organ world of his time / Wm. A. Little
Epigones of an epigone? Concerning Mendelssohn's string quartets - and the consequences / Friedhelm Krummacher
Composer as other: gender and race in the biography of Felix Mendelssohn / Marion Wilson Kimber