Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Piano Sheet Music

Mit der KOMPONISTEN-REIHE hat Peter Heilbut eine besondere Heftsammlung konzipiert. Jedes Heft ist einem Komponisten gewidmet, führt in dessen Leben und Werk ein und enthält ausserdem einen Lebenslauf...

In autumn 1830 Mendelssohn Bartholdy visited Venice whilst on a great European tour and was intoxicated by his impressions. He said of the local gondoliers: 'The gondoliers are now crying out to one a...

With Mendelssohn at the piano - of course one thinks here first of his magnificent Songs without Words, from which we have made a varied selection. But this volume also contains quite other, no less i...

In 1841, at the height of his mastery, Mendelssohn wrote three variation cycles for piano in quick succession. The first of them, the 'Variations sérieuses' op 54, should probably be regarded as his m...

Ullrich Scheideler has edited one of Mendelssohn's most important and beautiful piano works, comparing it again with the sources. Henle Publishers is now issuing it in a revised edition with his compr...

When Mendelssohn learned from his publisher Nikolaus Simrock that he was to receive an additional honorarium for a part of his 'Lieder ohne Worte', he effusively thanked him for this gift. However, th...

Mendelssohn, Felix (1809 - 1847)

These selected pieces have been compiled and edited by Keith Snell and performed by Diane Hidy on the piano. A music book correlated to the selections on this recording is available.

Felix Mendelssohn's famous G-minor concerto is a showpiece which demonstrates the composer's pianisticbrilliance. In three movements played without a break, it is one of the most revered concerti of t...