Mendelssohn's audience / Douglass Seaton -- Mendelssohn and the piano / Kenneth Hamilton -- Mendelssohn and the organ / Peter Ward Jones -- The performance of Mendelssohn's chamber and solo music for violin / Clive Brown -- Mendelssohn and the orchestra / David Milsom -- Mendelssohn as composer/conductor: early performances of Paulus / Siegwart Reichwald -- From drawing room to theater: performance traditions of Mendelssohn's stage works / Monika Hennemann -- Mendelssohn and the performance of Handel's vocal works / Ralf Wehner -- From notation to edition to performance: issues in interpretation / John Michael Cooper -- Mendelssohn's tempo indications / Siegwart Reichwald -- For you see I am the eternal objector: on performing Mendelssohn's music in translation / John Michael Cooper.