Violin solo, orchestra
SKU: BR.SON-433
Complete Works.
Composed by Felix
Bartholdy Mendelssohn.
Edited by Birgit Muller
and Salome Reiser. Linen.
Complete Works. Romantic
period. Complete Works.
184 pages. Breitkopf and
Haertel #SON 433.
Published by Breitkopf
and Haertel (BR.SON-433).
ISBN 9790004802892. 10
x 12.5
inches.
Felix
Mendelssohn Bartholdy's
violin concerto op. 64
had - like many of his
other works - a lengthy
genesis: it is in the
summer of 1838 that
surviving documents first
mention the promise made
to his friend Ferdinand
David, concert master of
the Leipzig Gewandhaus,
to write, besides a
sonata, a grand solo
concerto for him.
Ultimately, work on this
opus continued - with
some longer interruptions
- until September 1844.
Even then, it owed its
preliminary completion in
no small measure to the
constant urging of the
prospective solo
violinist. But after the
,,official handing-over
of the parts to David and
a first joint rehearsal
of the concert in Leipzig
Mendelssohn continued
working on the score.
There subsequently began
an intensive
correspondence with David
between Leipzig and
Frankfurt am Main, where
Mendelssohn resided with
his family, in particular
concerning issues of the
principal part and the
reworking of the solo
cadence. In March 1845
the then current version
of the work was premiered
in a subscribers' concert
in Leipzig.This volume
deals with Mendelssohn's
first complete manuscript
of the score with the
corrections contained
therein, including all
surviving drafts and
sketches; also included
is the epistolary
evidence of the
correspondence with
Ferdinand David prior to
the premiere. The further
developments up to the
printing of the main
version of op. 64 by
Breitkopf & Hartel are
dealt with in Series II,
Vol. 7 of the
edition.
Ferdinand-David
