January 3, 200917 yr 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
January 4, 200917 yr 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.
January 5, 200917 yr 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
January 5, 200917 yr 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.
January 6, 200917 yr 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!
January 6, 200917 yr Author 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
January 7, 200917 yr 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?
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