Violin 1 (solo: vl -
2.2.2.2 - 2.2.0.0 - timp
- str)
SKU:
BR.OB-5645-15
Urtext based on the
Leipzig Mendelssohn
Complete Edition.
Composed by Felix
Bartholdy Mendelssohn.
Edited by Birgit Muller.
Orchestra; stapled.
Orchester-Bibliothek
(Orchestral Library).
Solo concerto; Romantic.
Part. 12 pages. Duration
25'. Breitkopf and
Haertel #OB 5645-15.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel
(BR.OB-5645-15).
ISBN
9790004344729. 10 x 12.5
inches.
Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy
created a standard work
with his final violin
concerto in E minor op.
64 MWV O 14 that is now
firmly established in
today's concert
repertoire. When in 1838
the composer indicated
that he had in mind a
violin concerto [...] in
E minor [...], it was not
only his friend Ferdinand
David, the Gewandhaus
concertmaster for whom it
was intended, who was
euphoric. The whole
civilized violin world
was awaiting this
concerto - and yet it was
another seven years
before the
much-anticipated
composition was
ultimately published by
the Leipzig publishing
house Breitkopf & Hartel
in June 1845, as well as
simultaneously in London
and Milan. The concerto
particularly appeals
through its innovative
treatment of the solo
part, not only because
the solo violin
strikingly opens the
first movement without a
preceding orchestral
tutti, but also because
of its musical dialogue
with the orchestra. The
Leipzig Gewandhaus
premiere on 13 March 1845
with Ferdinand David as
soloist under the
direction of Nils Wilhelm
Gade served - as so
frequently with
Mendelssohn - virtually
as a proofreading
process. After the
composer subsequently
made extensive changes
that also involved David,
the work first appeared
just short of nine months
later. The first edition
documents the composer's
valid final revision,
which is reproduced as
the work's main version
in the present Urtext
edition.The matching
piano reduction includes
not only an unmarked
string part, but also a
part with the established
markings by Igor
Oistrach.
