Edgar Posted January 3, 2009 Posted January 3, 2009 What do you think of them? How can you HEAR them?? (I can never get hold of them) Piano Concerto in A minor Violin and Piano Concerto in D minor Concerto for Two Pianos in A flat and another in E. (All with String Orchestra) EDIT: D minor concerto for violin and strings: Mendelssohn- Concerto for Violin and Strings in D minor Quote
J. Lee Graham Posted January 4, 2009 Posted January 4, 2009 What do I think? Mendelssohn was every bit as great prodigy as Mozart. :D It may be more difficult to find recordings of Mendelssohn juvenilia, but they do exist. Check out the String Symphonies...there are 13 of them, all marvelous, and I believe all written before Mendelssohn was 15. Quote
chodelkovzart Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 i heard that Mendelssohn's first sonata was a failure. :P its quite funny. he didnt have a second theme. so it was: theme 1, theme 1 (in dominant key), developement based on theme 1, theme 1, theme 1, coda. LOL!!! btw, i would like to hear more of Mendelssohn's childhood works as well. and Fanny's too. :D Quote
Qmwne235 Posted January 5, 2009 Posted January 5, 2009 Well, a lot of C.P.E. Bach's sonata form works (and he was one of the main innovators in sonata form) didn't have a second theme either. Besides his string symphonies, the only childhood work I've ever heard of before was his viola sonata, which is...decent. Quote
cygnusdei Posted January 6, 2009 Posted January 6, 2009 i heard that Mendelssohn's first sonata was a failure. :P its quite funny. he didnt have a second theme. so it was: theme 1, theme 1 (in dominant key), developement based on theme 1, theme 1, theme 1, coda. LOL!!! btw, i would like to hear more of Mendelssohn's childhood works as well. and Fanny's too. :D If you are referring to the G minor Sonata, I believe he used the monothematic sonata form, which is closely associated with Haydn's style. The first movement is repetitive and forgettable, but the second movement is surprisingly a very mature, Romantic work! Quote
Edgar Posted January 6, 2009 Author Posted January 6, 2009 btw, i would like to hear more of Mendelssohn's childhood works as well.and Fanny's too. :D :whistling: Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel Piano Trio in d, Op.11 Quote
M_is_D Posted January 7, 2009 Posted January 7, 2009 A great violinist will be doing the double concerto with piano with the New World Symphony in Miami this season... if you can travle there :-p Who exactly? Quote
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