Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto in A Minor {13 year old composer!) (1822)
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- Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 - 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include symphonies, concertos, piano music and chamber music. His best-known works include his overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Italian Symphony, the Scottish Symphony, the oratorio Elijah, the overture The Hebrides, his mature Violin Concerto, and his String Octet. The melody for the Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is also his. Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words are his most famous solo piano compositions.
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Piano Concerto in A Minor (1821-22)
1. Allegro (0:00)
2. Adagio (13:30)
3. Finale: Allegro ma non troppo (22:09)
Cyprien Katsaris, piano and the Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra conducted by Janos Rolla
You could say he was A minor when he made this
lmaooo
Nice one but your joke was A minor offense
Magnific coment
bruh
Wow. This is unbelievable composition!
I love this piece but the fact that Mendelssohn was 13 when he composed this just makes me want to rethink my life choices.
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Because you could have done this at all?
How modest if you!
Rather rethink your genes and your choice of parents.
It’s ok. Mendelssohn was the greatest child prodigy in music history even surpassing Mozart at the same age, so don’t feel bad.
@@bw2082 nobody surpassed Mozart as a child prodigy, you f00l.
Mendelssohn is the greatest naturally gifted composer in history. Born with a sense for original melody and mastery of complex technique
Notwithstanding their admitted provincial nature due to the age they lived in, both Felix and Fanny are among the most underrated composers of the early Romantic period. Just because they died young (e.g.,Beethoven lived to 55), their stature is no different than Mozart's in my mind. Felix wrote more than 700 pieces of music and Fanny 460 within lexx than a 30-year period--many still unpublished and not in the repertoire. They were also artists and people of letters of which there are volumes. The intellectual beauty these two gave to the world is incredibly amazing and breathtaking if you think about it. And we should have the right to hear them all of their works. Who knows, perhaps there's another missing piano concerto played at one of the Mendelssohns' Sunday musicales and now stuffed away in some archive that missed the catalogue.
Great comment
Thank you. When one thinks about it, the Mendelssohns' output, like Mozart's, seems impossible within the periods in which they lived--particularly with all the other activities required by fame and fortune for Felix in particular. As for Fanny, according to both Felix and his father, she was, after her marriage, just a housewife who swept the floor, washed the laundry, made the beds and cooked the meals. Yet she had time to produced 460 pieces of music not to mention voluminous correspondence!? Like I said, both Felix's and Fanny's outputs just don't seem physically possible within the time period in which they lived. But there they are. What a regret that they both died so young lacking the medical attention available 100 years later.
Just speculate what changes in musical style may have resulted had the Mendelssohns lived through 1848 and the revolutions that rocked Europe.
footnote: Feliix Mendelssohn's death shocked all of Europe right up to Buckingham Palace and Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. You think Victoria mourned Albert's premature death a few years later? Felix's wife, Cécile Charlotte Sophie Jeanrenaud, was so grief stricken that there are letters confessing how she would daily "crucify" herself on his gravestone in tears of the loss. Indeed, her grief was so intense, she joined her husband six years later in 1853.
And he (that is Felix), if I'm not mistaken, is partially responsible for the rise in popularity of Bach. That alone is worthy of recognition in my opinion. Although I am quite biased as Bach is my favorite composer.
You played an important part. Who falls or does not fall into the graces of public consideration or posterity? Well, the fact is that whoever there figured, with merit or would not be glorified in his time. This continued in posterity.
I just can't get enough of this concerto
Hardy Blues Me too. Especially the first movement. Currently listening now. I wonder how the other movements are
Yeah, the first movement is addictive.
Yes! this most wonderful piece isn't even cataloged as an opus work. Perhaps Felix thought that this very early piece lacked maturity compared to his more advanced works. I disagree! Love this early work!!!
The coda of the first movement is really a top-tier one, can't stop looping it.
It's good ain't it?
little felix the prodigy cat
feline felix
12:53
Almost exactly the same as the last movement of his G minor Concerto, No 1
ua-cam.com/video/Kj6QFnWWbNE/v-deo.html @18:31 you can hear it!
(18:31 of the G minor)
L'œuvre d'un prodige, qui confirme que «la valeur n'attend pas le nombre des années» et a toujours autant de succès par sa beauté et la joie qui s'en dégage 🙏La maturité de l'adagio est incroyable !🎶💓🎶✨
amazing performance and even more so that he was only 13!
It's sad to think, that back then he didn't know that already a third of his life was over.
One of my favorites.. The Great and VERY IMPORTANT to classical music, Felix Mendelssohn... if he would live 20 more years.. can you imagine?
In retrospect the Octet was the worst thing to happen to Mendelssohn from a legacy standpoint. To write this fire-breathing masterpiece in its unique form for an integrated 8 string ensemble at the age of 16 seems so implausible that it has shadowed his entire output. Composer legacies unfortunately tend to be dominated by the narrative of a progression in style and those who show definite progressive advancement are often favored above those who do not. If Mozart had composed the C minor Piano Concerto as his first mature piano concerto, it would have devalued all the others. If Schubert had written the String Quintet earlier in his career, everything that followed would be judged in reference to it. Ironically, if the Octet was never written, or if it was written at the end of his career, I believe Mendelssohn would be valued more highly because all his other compositions could be viewed from a more normative perspective. The F minor and A minor String Quartets are some of the best of the genre but having been composed by the man who earlier wrote the more bombastic Octet they have never been accorded the acclaim they deserve. While Mozart was a prodigy, one can easily juxtapose the two G minor symphonies for instance and see that the one is greater. There's no work of Mozart's teenage years that can be called greater than later efforts in the same genre. If compositions existed in a vacuum and we had no idea of the ordering, I think we would be shocked how many legacies would change completely. But we have the dates. And so we have to live with the constant condescension that Mendelssohn is inferior for his lack of development all because he happened to write an idiosyncratic masterpiece as a 16 year old.
I may be the odd man out, but I don't judge Mendelsohn for not really progressing as a composer - by the time he was 17, he had essentially mastered composition as far as he could take it, so why mess with a good thing? Instead of trying to progress for progress' sake, he instead just kept on composing great music of essentially the same stellar calibre as his Octet and Overture to Midsummer, and that in itself is admirable in my book.
Unlike nearly all of his contemporaries, Mendelssohn was born to an affluent family so he didn’t need to push himself the way the others did. For Chopin, it was “compose ingenious, compelling music every time, or STARVE”, so his piano output is vast and revolutionary. Who knows the kind of masterpieces Felix and Fanny would have produced if they were struggling financially.
I guess you are talking about a select group of people with a certain knowledge and judgement, but many people appreciate Mendelssohn primarily for later works like the violin concerto or the songs without words
@@pietervoogt I guess that the vast majority of "non expert" people think of "a midsummer night dream" if they hear the name of Mendelssohn... some more skilled would think of the violin concerto or the italian symphony... I guess the octet is known only by experts, as it is not played very often.
Excuse me sir, but the first movement of Mozart's 25th is a fire breathing masterpiece worthy of Mendelssohn's Octet, if not better (also a very bad choice for comparison as it is the only work Mozart ever wrote in an otherwise alien to him Sturm und Drang style; many aspects of that symphony which can be considered overly idiomatic and simplistic are not flaws of Mozart but features of the style).
I sadly have to agree Mendelssohn is not associated even with the octet by broader audiences, it's the 'Midsummer's...' wedding march, then it's a tie between the overture and violin concerto. I don't think people recognise the 'Italian' symphony more than the octet in fact. However, I know one person who asked about Mendelssohn immediately replied with 'Requiem for Fanny' and was even able to hum the opening without knowing the violin concerto.
I've been listening to it for months and I still enjoy it like it's the first time.
Try the Stöckigt version. Absolute masterpiece of interpretation. If you like Gould, you will admire it. It's on CD. Reference!
I love seeing his own manuscript. Fascinating
The third part is great. It just impossible to imagine that a child wrote it. I can listening endlessly.Thank you.
Genialer Jugendstreich des Komponisten! Großes Lob den Interpreten! Stürmische Brillanz, zärtliches Innehalten - alles hat seinen Platz! Nicht zu vergessen: die Tontechnik: wunderbar räumliche Aufnahme! Insgesamt: ein Juwel!
Love this----Mendelssohn is a very under rated composer, and there are many wonderful treasures out there that have yet to be discovered. (His sister was amazing too!)
This is amazing and to think he was 13.
I love this difficult piano concerto.
It needs to "get out there" because it is well-written and entertaining.
Many juvenile works are tentative and insecure.
This is amazingly fresh, bold, and dramatic.
Felix, you are amazing!
Thanks for uploading!
1822 - still very Mozart. Three years later, he wrote the Midsummer Night's Dream overture, his first great and truly original work. Puzzling that there's so little Beethoven influence - a much sunnier disposition, I guess.
Yep. The hurriedly rushed tension filled melody everywhere
This is fantastic !!
Wonderfull . Awesome Concerto for Piano - Genial . Many Thanks Dear Bartje
Absolutely brilliant....thank you for uploading this! Wonderful piece.......
What a truly delightful work. All the more so as the work of a young teen. Thank you for posting this and for including the scrolling autograph score!
Love the cello solo on first movement, THIS IS AMAZING
Love the soothing piano part and upbeat melody.
Magnifique...tout simplement !!!
love it. pure genius! thanks for sharing!
wow amazing :)
thx for uploading :)
Gigante y colosal Mendelssohn, que nos dejó un legado de pasión, brillantez, claridad como agua cristalina y elocuencia, vivacidad como fuego que crece con la ligereza del aire, romance que penetra hasta los huesos, drama, alma y espíritud, amor y mucho corazón. Un incalculable tesoro para la humanidad.
Wow, fabulous what a joy to listen to. 13 years old !!!!!thank you so much for posting.👍👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹🌹🍾🥂
His handwriting looks like Mozart's
exactly
and piece also
Fantastic, magnific.
amazing,
and so mature at his age
Beautiful piece from a beautiful mind.
What a great video! Keep them coming. Just subscribed to your video!
This is actually so good that I got goosebumps.
Brillantissime ce dernier mouvement ! Quel gamin !! Époustouflant !
The best version of this masterpiece I ever found!
Thank's a lot. Both to you and Mendelssohn!
Try Stöckigt on CD. Absolute masterpiece. Reference!
A very mature musical mind in a young body. The pianist is amazing!
Wow... just discovering this little gem of Mendelssohn now. Fantastic! But then, it's Mendelssohn, so how could it be anything less than great?
Thank you for sharing! This must have made Bach and Mozart smile from the beyond. :)
Chip shop !!!
Mendelssohn's juvenalia eclipses Mozart's notwithstanding the wealth and privilege that the former enjoyed. However, the pure energy here of youthful musical power could not be sustained even as early as the G minor piano concerto. It is no wonder the composer was entombed by a stroke at 38.
That said, to listen to this and other contemporaneous works such as the Trumpet Overture seem beyond human possibilities. And to follow the original score in its broad sweep of detail is just stunning in its genius. How lucky was the holder of a bi-weekly invitation to a Mendelssohn Sunday musicale in the 1820s. S/he experienced a special magic that none of us before or since could have ever even imagined.
+ps will Never understood the whole Mendelssohn lost it as he got older thing. The emin Violin Concerto, a generally acknowledged masterpiece comes from the last years of his life. The fmin String Quartet, Midsummer Nights Dream (minus the overture), 3rd, 4th symphonies, all 'late' works and show no lag of inspiration.
It was the death of his sister, Fanny (age 40), who had a sudden stroke while singing in April 1847 that finally killed Felix who died that November 4 (age 38) (The two were so close they invented and spoke their own language!). Felix did manage the famous F minor quartet between the time of her death and his own. It's a work of a changed man. Everyone of the Mendelssohns died of strokes going back to Moses. If they only had the advantage of modern medical attention, they could have had the benefit of preventive care, how much richer our music heritage would be today. Or even lived through the revolutions of the following year, how changed would be their output?
I really didn't answer your question, did I. Unlike all famous composers of his day, Felix (and Fanny) were rich notwithstanding their talents. They could afford to have bad days unlike their contemporaries. Also look at the age they lived in. Democracy did not exist as we know it in their home countries. Aside from the issue of slavery, compare what was going on across the Atlantic: Era of Good Feeling, Manifest Destiny and rapid industrialization, Andrew Jackson, and the Mexican War. And to the Europeans, this was crude yet enticing. True or not, remember it is said that in his later years, Mendelssohn wanted to elope with Jenny Lind to America. Also recall that he had many, many requests--even pleas-- to visit the US from Mendelssohn Societies and others that had been formed in the 1830-40s.
bello come Dio
bello come Dio
Beautiful
Wow, at thirteen years old, what a genius. At thirteen I could barely wade thru a Mozart sonata. Thanks for uploading, great sound. 👍👍👍🤗🤗🆒🆒🍾🥂🌹
Bravo brilliance concerto music super
Felix Mendelssohn:a-moll Zongoraverseny
1.Allegro 00:00
2.Adagio 13:30
3.Rondo:Allegro, ma non troppo 22:09
Cyprien Katsaris-zongora
Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar
Vezényel:Rolla János
Wonderful! I also remember hearing a Violin Concerto he wrote at the same age.
Malcolm Dale I am busy editing that concerto, it will be up in a few days, also with manuscript score.
***** It's the Violin Concerto in D minor, as opposed to his famous Violin Concerto in E minor.
+Abad Briman You can find it on my channel, also with score. See comment of Malcolm Dale.
Nice performance👏👏👏👏👏👍
Это чудо,это блестяще,это как восход солнца в пасмурный день,это пробуждение Души! Браво Мендельсон! Браво пианисту,блестящее исполнение,можно слушать без конца и восхищаться!ВОСТОРГ ,СЧАСТЬЕ ,ЧТО ЕСТЬ ЭТА МУЗЫКА!
Delightful!
Extraordinaire !
He composed this at 13. I could barely play twinkle twinkle little stars at 13.
Honestly at this age I was still struggling to play Chopin's waltz
I started at the age of 13, so, I feel you.
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@@alejandrom.4680 samee
wow amazing
What a new year's present YOUR UPLOAD & this discovery ! So funny, the comments here, a Concerto in a-minor from a minor. Young happy prodigy Felix was no copy cat when he penned this beautiful work. PS i love Emily Bear who upholds the cheerful classic tradition without being hellbent on modernism.
very nice
Impressionante!
ce felix mendelsshon tres grand compositeur aussi bien en symphonie en tout genre de classique
quelle qui sois et grand diose tres bon a ecoute même en travallan cela ferais passer le temp !
astonishing!
Thanks, Bartje. A better performance than I have on CD. Isn't it wonderful such a young boy writing this joyful piece.
There is other Mendelssohn juvenalia that is just as joyfully amazing such as the two piano concertos in E major and Ab major for two pianos (the last movement is just plain fun!) probably written for his sister, Fanny, and himself, for one of the Sunday Mendelssohn musicales in the 1820s writtten when he was 14 and 15. And then there are the amazing 12 string symphonies written when he was 14-15 to be capped off by The Midsummer's Night Dream Overture written at 17. And that's just for starters in the repertory.
Best piece ive heard at his age
I didn't even know there was a piano concerto in A minor unti today. Adore Mendelssohns music. Can honestly say that I have not heard one piece by him that isn't anything short of genius. Very similar to Mozart in many respects. Adore his tutti writing, he summons up such energy and power, incredible writing
Grieg's piano concerto is in A minor
@@amerain1729 I know I’ve studied it to concert level
Thank you for introducing this delightful piano concerto into my life BB. I actually prefer it to the rather showy one every one plays.
Si bien la genialidad nace y no se aprende me sorprende el dominio técnico que muestra para sus trece años
Daily dose of satisfaction
El Mozart del siglo XIX . Bravo !!
A deep respect for young FMB!
Pure genius
! IMPRESIONANTE ! ? COMO SE PUEDEN ESCRIBIR TANTAS NOTAS E INTERPRETARLAS ? ADEMAS LLENAS DE BELLEZA !!!
Thank you so much for your posting.Just recall our 13 age,what was we doing? I was touched immediately when I read first melody of his violin concert in E minor but did not who is him yet.
Interestingly, Mendelssohn never changed his writing style in his two mature piano concertos. The content just matured quite a bit yet the fluid arpeggios, repeated chords in LH accompanying a gorgeous melody in the RH are still evident.
Thanks
💝💝💝 TY
classical style with the modern instrument technique and range
danke
Ce fut un génie !
Ainda está muito clássico!
This at 13, and im almost positive this WASNT his first concerto!!
I think he wrote one for violin first (In D minor) and then one for violin and piano, along with 2 others for he and his sister to play. (In E major and A flat major) along with this one. He was amazingly prolific when he was younger----what a shame he didn't believe in his music more and didn't stay focused on his own compositions as he got older.
I'm no musician bur I like watching the acrual hand notion while listening. No wonder talent memorizes the score; it would be tought translating in actual performance fromit, I bet.
mendelsohn est un compositeur de génie pas assez reconnu ,, mort trop jeune comme souvent on devine la jeunesse , le fougue a travers chacune des notes de concerto plein d enthousiasme ,
I'm puzzled that this concerto is so obscure. I find it more thrilling than the other two, and I have no complaints about those. Pianistically, it sounds like it would be more difficult to play.
I agree! It's such a great piece. I think that the other two are more aligned with the Romantic style and "trendy" for the time, whereas this one is more inspired by the "old-fashioned" concerti of Mozart, Beethoven, and Hummel.
Pretty interesting sheets.
very tangoesque ... :-)
I can't believe how long he withheld that C Major resolution from 2:54 to 3:42, just dancing around on the dominant of G. Truly the machinations of a teenager. Even the fermatas on the rests at 3:37 (which are not given proper attention by the performer) indicate that Mendelssohn intended this to be incredibly long-winded.
How could these be truly machinations by a teenager when no other teenager ever wrote something like this?
This is unbelievably good if you ask me, especially because he ends it all with a prank by quoting 'Eine kleine...'. I actually find it ingenious and more in Haydn's jokester spirit than Mozart's.
23:14 This passage sounds very much like Vivaldi, or at least the Italian Baroque style in general. (Especially the conversation between the violins starting at 23:29)
If i didn't know it was felix who composed it I would have thought it was Mozart who composed this.....it's amazing so joyful and such maturity it doesn't sound like it was composed by 13 year old what genius
at 13 Year old I played video games and yu-gi-oh
Wow. A masterpiece at any age by any composer. Can't believe this is not in the standard repertoire. Just amazing. Of course Clara Schumann wrote a piano concerto at age 14 (opus 7) that is much more difficult to play (thought must say his final coda does not look easy!) than this one but to me this is music of a much higher standard. Of course just opinions...wow, that melody at 19:50 such mature beauty in simplicity and the orchestra that leads up to that point just masterful.
I saw alma deutsher’s piano concerto and came back to Mendelssohn’s piano concerto
Because they basically wrote these at the same age and both are geniuses but
Sorry alma I still think this concerto is better and my favorite
Ps : pianist here
mendelssohn was a awesome prodigy it is a shame he died so young him and many others music needs to played in our time and leave the great composer music a rest for a time
At 13 years old, I was still playing with my legos
the Finale is very much like Hummel A minor Op. 85 concerto, and no surprise given the older master's fame.
Mozart taught Hummel but young Felix seems to have magically absorbed their knowledge without learning.
The melody at around 13:00 sounds like the final movement of his Piano Concerto 1
Yes!! This moment start to 12:54!
what's genius,he was indeed.
Utterly gorgeous, although I cannot but help thinking that the addition of woodwind and, say, a pair of horns and timpani would enhance it.
Perhaps one of the most ingenious of all the composers.
驚くべき才能！
This reminds me of Hummel's second concerto
Technically very advanced concerto compare to his two later concertos written when he was in his early 20's.
it seems to me this wonderful concerto foreshadows the first e minor of Chopin.
He quotes Mozart.......Another "genius" of the times!!!
To everyone in the comments saying " I was struggling doing X or Y at 13 years old" the only pertinent metric of achievement is the ratio of time and effort you put in something, over actual result, not your age. It's just useless to put oneself down like you are doing.
Oww!!!!!!❤❤