Konzert e-Moll op. 64 für Violine und Orchester

Zweite Fassung 1845 mit separatem Kommentar zur Aufführungspraxis

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Konzert e-Moll op. 64 für Violine und Orchester

Zweite Fassung 1845 mit separatem Kommentar zur Aufführungspraxis

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Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Konzert e-Moll op. 64 für Violine und Orchester

Zweite Fassung 1845 mit separatem Kommentar zur Aufführungspraxis

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Instrumentation Violin and Piano
Composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Series Bärenreiter Urtext
Editor R. Larry Todd Clive Brown
Edition Piano reduction with part(s) Download (Urtext)
Publisher Bärenreiter Verlag
Order no. BA9099-93-DL

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Language: German English
Release: 20.10.2025
Term: 26:00
Key: E minor
Opus: 64
Genre: Classical Music
ISMN: 9790006637874

Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, Op. 64, is a seminal work of the 19th century that, on the one hand, remains rooted in Beethoven’s classical style, while on the other hand, points the way toward Brahms’s Romantic ideal of expression. It has long been known that Mendelssohn premiered the work with three soloists in succession: Ferdinand David, who collaborated closely with the composer during the composition process and performed the premiere; Joseph Joachim, the "child prodigy"; and Hubert Léonard, a young Belgian virtuoso about whom we know very little.

Proof sheets for the Violin Concerto in E minor were long thought to be lost; so it came as something of a sensation when, recently, such proof sheets for the solo violin part were discovered along with a letter from Mendelssohn to Léonard.

The letter informs us that the composer invited Léonard to his home in Frankfurt to get to know him. It was already known that Mendelssohn gave proof sheets to David; but now we know that Léonard received them as well.

The recently discovered proof sheets document how Léonard performed the concerto together with Mendelssohn on that evening in February 1845. They contain bowing marks and fingering indications and show how Léonard executed position changes and where he used open strings; they also include modified dynamic markings and additional legato slurs.

We can assume that all of this was done in accordance with Mendelssohn’s wishes. The fact that the young violinist made a positive impression on Mendelssohn is confirmed in the composer’s letters written after their evening together; Mendelssohn highly praises Léonard’s playing and offers to help him find work in Germany.

Bärenreiter’s revised edition of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto—in which only the orchestral parts remain unchanged—includes a separate booklet on performance practice. The editor is Clive Brown, a recognized expert on Romantic performance practice.

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