August 11, 20196 yr Last year I made the most interesting discovery that in the month his violin concerto had it's first performance (March/April 1845) Mendelssohn was working on a 6th symphony in C-Major! For the 1st mov. he wrote the first about 80 bars in full score and some sketches for the 2nd theme and the development. This fascinated me so much that I tried to make a full movement of it. I finally could also get the sketches for a second movement from a library in Oxford and made it to complete also this to a whole Andante movement of about 14 minutes. The first 2:50 minutes are based on a full melody sketch with various hints to the accompaniement by Mendelssohn. After orchestrating this I continued with a new middle part with various themes with each increasing in strength and coming to a dramatic climax with an appassionate fugato. After this various variations of Mendelssohn's beautiful Andante theme follow until a recapitulation of the beginning and a most tender final variation. I.Allegro http://www.gerdprengel.de/Mendelssohn_unfinished_symphony1.mp3 http://www.gerdprengel.de/Symphony_in_C_Allegro.pdf II. Andante cantabile http://www.gerdprengel.de/Mendelssohn_unfinished_symphony_Andante.mp3 http://www.gerdprengel.de/Mendelssohn_unfinished_symphony_Andante.pdf It would help me to get your impressions ... Thank you Regards, Gerd
February 16, 20206 yr Author The second movement is based on these sketches: www.gerdprengel.de/Mendelssohn_unfinished_symphony_Andante_sketch.pdf By now I shortened the Andante in the middle part, origninally it was too long. It has now this Structure: 0:00 Andante cantabile main part, melody and bass line sketch by Mendelssohn 2:55 Andante con moto 4:59 3 variations on the main theme 7:11 Reprise 10:00 Coda, final variation of main theme see the links in top of the thread ... I am curious about your impressions ... what would you have done with the Andante sketches? Gerd
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