This popular concert piece combines two of Mendelssohn's specialties: the first section is a short, lyrical "song without words", and the second part is a light and sparkling scherzo. Variations Sérieuses in D Minor, Op. 54 Mendelssohn's most important and forward-looking work; the title...
Among those new snippets is the single most famous piece Mendelssohn ever wrote: the wedding march that gets played right after “You may now kiss the bride.” That little piece has become so familiar, so much a part of popular culture, that it often surprises people to hear that ...
This piece successfully evokes Scotland's atmosphere in the ethos of Romanticism, but does not depend on any actual Scottish folk melodies. Mendelssohn published the score of the symphony in 1842. Mendelssohn travelled widely in Europe throughout his life, and a visit to Italy inspired him to ...
Famous Works Symphony No. 3 in A minor (“Scottish”), Symphony No. 4 in A major (“Italian”),Songs without Words, Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, The “Elijah” Oratorio,Violin Concerto in E minor,Wedding March(from Incidental Music to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream) ...
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Henselt wrote just one masterpiece, the Piano Concerto in F minor (1844). With its elements of Chopin, Liszt, Mendelssohn and Weber, it was one of the most performed works of its kind until Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 became more popular....
But in an amazing plot twist, captured as it happened in this extraordinary film, it is once and for all proven definitively to be Fanny’s own piano masterpiece, written when she was only 22. Fanny’s music is brought to life by t...
‘Italien’, replied the Queen. Felix (presumably slightly awkwardly) replied that this beautiful song was actually the work of his sister Fanny. Overall, Fanny wrote 460 pieces of music including many ‘Songs without Words’, a type of piano piece for which her brother later became famous. ...
and even a little dramatic piece in three scenes. In 1821 he wrote five symphonies for stringed instruments, each in three movements; motets for four voices; an opera, in one act, calledSoldatenliebschaft; another, calledDie beiden Pädagogen; part of a third, calledDie wandernde Comö...
The Mendelssohn (the early D minor concerto rather than the more famous one in E minor) is the most surprising success, the trumpet chattering 19-to-the-dozen in the lip-crackingly fiendish finale, with a touching, lyrical extended slow movement. It becomes a much heartier piece with the ...