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String Symphony No. 3 in E minor (1821) String Symphony No. 4 in C minor (1821) String Symphony No. 5 in B flat major (1821) String Symphony No. 6 in E flat major (1821) String Symphony No. 7 in D minor (1822) String Symphony No. 8 in D major (later arranged for full orchestra) (1822) String Symphony No. 9 in C minor (1823)
The symphonies are written for a string orchestra.String Symphony No. 11 also contains percussion (timpani, triangle, cymbals) in the second movement.No. 8 exists in two forms: the original for string orchestra, and an arrangement that Mendelssohn wrote that added woodwinds, brass, and timpani.
Articles about Symphonies by Felix Mendelssohn. Pages in category "Symphonies by Felix Mendelssohn" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.
Felix Mendelssohn aged 12 (1821) by Carl Joseph Begas. Felix Mendelssohn was born on 3 February 1809, in Hamburg, at the time an independent city-state, [n 4] in the same house where, a year later, the dedicatee and first performer of his Violin Concerto, Ferdinand David, would be born. [4]
Unusually, Mendelssohn marked the movements to be performed without breaks, and underlined the connection between the symphony's parts by making them grow from the continual thematic transformation of the original idea he had notated in 1829, presented in the slow introduction to the first movement. [11]
The Symphony No. 4 in A major, Op. Posth. 90, MWV N 16, commonly known as the Italian, [1] is an orchestral symphony written by German composer Felix Mendelssohn. History [ edit ]
The Symphony No. 5 in D major/D minor, Op. 107, known as the Reformation, was composed by Felix Mendelssohn in 1830 in honor of the 300th anniversary of the Presentation of the Augsburg Confession. The Confession is a key document of Lutheranism and its Presentation to Emperor Charles V in June 1530 was a momentous event of the Protestant ...
The symphony was dedicated to the Philharmonic Society, who performed the London première on May 25, 1829 with Mendelssohn conducting. [2] Mendelssohn orchestrated the scherzo from his Octet Op. 20 as an alternative third movement for this performance, which is occasionally played alongside or in place of the Menuetto.
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