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Mendelssohn Symphonies

Which of Mendelssohn's Syphonies is your favorite? 2 members have voted

  1. 1. Which of Mendelssohn's Syphonies is your favorite?

    • Symphony No. 1 in C minor
      0%
      0
    • Symphony No. 2 in B-flat major ("Lobgesang") [Song of Praise]
      0%
      0
    • Symphony No. 3 in A minor ("Scottish")
      21%
    • Symphony No. 4 in A major ("Italian")
      21%
    • Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor ("Reformation")
      4%
    • I'm not qualified enough to answer.
      34%
    • I dislike his symphonies, or feel indifferent to them.
      17%

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  • 1 month later...

I actually like 4. Partly because it begins in major and ends in minor....no wait, that's probably most of the reason. Anyway the last movement is nice and to the point.

I'm going with the majority and the Italian. I love it!

I really adore a lot of Mendelssohn, but his later stuff (Midsummer Night's Dream etc.), really doesn't do much for me. Pity really, since there's quite some exciting and progressive things in his youth works.

Midsummer Night's Dream is GODLY!!

You are all sad peasants who should be impaled on a bee-covered Lindsay Lohan and slowly dipped in boiling tar.

what is this doing in the Off-Topic ?

I don't know all symphonies, I'm not a "fan" of Mendelssohn but I know the 4th "Italian" ...

I like the main "reverse" structure... the classical way to sort the movements would be the "serious" minor at the begining and the "happy" major at the end. But Mendelssohn putted the "happy" at the begining and ends with the "serious" minor one....

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Please shove a vial of nitroglicerine up your sphincter and breakdance. Thank you.

Kinda irritable man ? just like the real Hector Berlioz

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The spread is interesting. For those of you that don't know, he did not write the symphonies in the order they are numbered; the actual ordering is (if I recall correctly) 1, 5, 4, 2, 3. Scottish is his most mature (although it doesn't sound Scottish at all - in fact, Schumann once saw a performance of it that mislabeled it "Italian" and wrote a review the next day about how it evoked beautiful Italian scenery) but I'm personally quite fond of the second as well, since it's the only symphony of his that uses a chorus (and boy, does he use it).

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