Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Sheet Music for String Ensemble

The string quartet is generally considered as the chamber-music genre of the classical era: invented by Haydn, elaborated by Haydn and Mozart, and brought to its compositional peak by Beethoven. All l...

Spirited', 'dramatic', 'highly expressive', and 'masterly' are among the comments made upon Mendelssohn's String Quartets op. 44 nos 1-3. He wrote them in 1837/1838, at a very happy time: he had just...

Mendelssohn's String Quartet op. 80 is one of his few 'autobiographical' works, a moving musical document of his grief over the death of his sister Fanny and his attempt to artistically process the pa...

In view of Mendelssohn's strong revising obsession, the quintets pose some challenges to the editor: in the A-major quintet, after he replaced an inner movement and switched the order of the movements...

Geniestreich des Jugendlichen Das Oktett op. 20 zählt zusammen mit der 'Sommernachtstraum'-Ouvertüre zu den unbestrittenen Meisterwerken des jugendlichen Komponisten aus den Jahren 1825/26.

4 Violinen, 2 Violen, 2 Celli - Stimmensatz

The genesis of Mendelssohn's string quintets is closely connected to his friend Eduard Rietz and the latter's brother Julius. Deeply affected by Eduard's death in 1832, Mendelssohn exchanged the 'Minu...

As a composer of chamber music Mendelssohn claims greatness almost without qualification.... He had a complete mastery of his medium... and an intensity of interest in pure music that renders his quar...

Mit dem Oktett Es-dur op. 20 wird in der Leipziger Mendelssohn-Gesamtausgabe eine zentrale Komposition veröffentlicht, zu der die Herausgeber mit einer bisher ungedruckten, authentischen Werkfassung a...

2 Violins, 1 Viola, 1 Cello, 1 Contrabass