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Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto In E Minor For Violin, Opus 64 Composed by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847), edited by Henry Schradieck. Set of performance parts (includes separate pull-out violin part) for violin and piano accompaniment. Schirmer Library, volume 235. With solo part and piano reduction. E Minor. 28 pages.
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Mendelssohn excelled as well in conducting, organ, violin, and viola. His piano playing was legendary. His ability to perform from memory was unparalleled, and his improvisational skills enabled him to sit down at the piano after conducting a concert and pull together themes from all the pieces playedinto a startlinglynew piece all its own. He was ... considered one of the premier conductors in Europe. He developed systematic rehearsal techniques that advanced the fledgling art of conducting to an independent discipline. His leadership style, personal yet forceful and always musically flawless, became the standard for conductors in his time and remains so today.
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Mendelssohn had two grand pianos in his rooms at the Heinke’s, and he was constantly practising. Moreover, he practised on a dumb keyboard while sitting up in bed. His public appearances were greeted with wild enthusiasm. The best account of them is in his own letters, for he was a charming letter-writer. "Old John Cramer led me to the piano like a young lady," he says, "and I was received with immense applause." At a morning concert he played Weber’s Concertstück, when he was dressed in "very long white trousers, brown silk waistcoat, black necktie, and blue dress coat." Of another concert he tells, with consummate amusement, how a lady accidentally sat on a kettledrum.
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Felix first played in public on the 24th of October 1818, taking the pianoforte part in a trio by Woelfl. On April 11, 1819, he entered the Berlin Singakademie as an alto, and in the following year began to compose with extraordinary rapidity.
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Felix was at this time but little more than twelve years old. He had within the last year composed fifty or sixty pieces, including a trio for piano and strings, containing three movements, several sonatas for the piano, some songs and a musical comedy in three scenes, for piano and voices. All these were written with the greatest care and precision, and with the date of each neatly added. He collected his pieces into volumes; and the more work he did the more neatly he wrote.
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SA, Piano / Mendelssohn's melodic genius at its best! "The words are those of Heinrich Heine, a contemporary of Mendelssohn, whose exquisite lyricism is matched by Mendelssohn's flowing music...The effortless craftsmanship that produced this expressive gem guarantees the ease of learning it, and success in performing it. English and German texts." —The New York State School Music News / 2:30 / 392-03001 @ $1.60
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