Felix Mendelssohn made his mark as a pianist and composer in his teenage years, and this album of his Concerto for violin, piano and strings in D minor and the Octet for strings in E flat major directly illustrates that point. Composed when Mendelssohn was 14, the concerto was intended as vehicle for his violin teacher, Eduard Ritz, and himself, and it was ostensibly inspired by a concerto for the same solo instruments by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, his composition teacher. This is clearly the work of an enthusiastic virtuoso ...
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Felix Mendelssohn made his mark as a pianist and composer in his teenage years, and this album of his Concerto for violin, piano and strings in D minor and the Octet for strings in E flat major directly illustrates that point. Composed when Mendelssohn was 14, the concerto was intended as vehicle for his violin teacher, Eduard Ritz, and himself, and it was ostensibly inspired by a concerto for the same solo instruments by Johann Nepomuk Hummel, his composition teacher. This is clearly the work of an enthusiastic virtuoso with a lot to show off and express, and despite Mendelssohn's studious imitation of Bach in the opening theme, he found his own voice from the entrance of the piano and violin and worked out his themes in an ingenious mix of Baroque, Classical, and Romantic styles. The octet, written as a birthday present for Ritz when Mendelssohn was 16, is generally acknowledged as the young composer's first true masterpiece, and there is no doubt that competing impulses merged in this piece to...
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