Piano Concerto No. 1 (Mendelssohn)

The Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op 25 (MWV O 7) is the first of two piano concertos by Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. The resulting juvenilia Piano Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in A minor and two concerts included in Mendelssohn's estate for Two Pianos and String Orchestra have no official numbering; only the g - minor concerto by Mendelssohn was found to be good enough for publication.

Formation

Mendelssohn wrote the concert, which he later described as "a fast then thrown thing" in 1831 and dedicated it to the 17 -year-old pianist Delphine of Schauroth, with whom he had a love affair. Probably Mendelssohn had been a year earlier stimulate debate on the composition.

The world premiere in Munich Odeon hall, also in the King Ludwig I was present, took place on October 17, 1831 at a charity concert " For the good of the poor relief society " instead, in which Mendelssohn next to the piano concerto and conducted his first symphony. Mendelssohn wrote about the conducted by him premiere of the Piano Concerto: "Yesterday my concert, then, is been and brilliant and hilarious failed, as I had expected [ ... ] There were around 1100 people there, and so the poor can be satisfied ".

About the Music

Set names

Analysis

Piano and orchestra part are closely in concert with each other. By Carl Maria von Weber's Concert Piece for Piano and Orchestra in F minor op 79 affected, Mendelssohn does in his first piano concerto the sentences into one another. The Weberian model also exerted influence on the first movement of the concerto.

Will open the first set of energetic inserts only the orchestra and the piano, which are followed by an imagination and a lyrical theme. Towards the end of the first set can be found Strettomelodien.

The transition to the E major Andante takes place in the trumpets and horns; Violas and cellos carry out the theme of the middle movement.

There are again the trumpets and horns, which introduce the Presto finale, whose piano style reminiscent of Johann Nepomuk Hummel. The energetic mellifluous music of the finale contains brief reminiscences of the first movement of the concerto.

Documents

• Christoph Hahn, Sigmar Hohl ( ed.), Bertelsmann concert guide, Bertelsmann Lexikon Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1993, ISBN 3-570-10519-9

• Haren mountain concert guide, Haren mountain communication, Dortmund, 1998, ISBN 3-611-00535-5