If you stop and look at the first page of the score, you'll notice that the piece was written in 1825. And what were YOU doing at 16 years old... (originally got the math wrong....)
One could say "Okay, he started early on playing the piano, was enormously talented and worked really hard, so it's somehow understandable that he was able to write a piece for solo piano like this." But if one considers that he wrote his A Midsummer Night's Dream overture one year later as he was just 17 ... one starts to think about the possibility that maybe W. Mozart is a little bit overrated. One thing for sure I'd say: Mendelssohn is underrated by many.
@@Simon_A. And also keep into account the enormous support Mozart had from his father, who was also a professional composer himself. It turns out that the day Leopold stopped publishing his own work, is the day Mozart junior started to publish. Although Mendelssohn also had quite some support, being born in a rich family with the right connections and money. Weren't they friends with Goethe? And also perhaps, an indirect "fruit" of a grandfather who was still poor - but worked his way up as a self-made scholar and philosopher - it started with him, and probably resulted in very good conditions for a supertalent as Felix to grow.
BTW Felix was not underrated, he was and is still celebrated as one of the most famous composers of Western culture. Truly underrated is Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix's sister who is allegedly as brilliant as him, in a time that female composers were structurally ignored. A quote from a Master's thesis in musicology from Elly Tarpenning: "This study shows that Fanny was a gifted and creative composer, even surpassing Felix and predating Brahms with her compositional ideas and progressive uses of harmony"
Thank you for making the time and effort to load this. It is really fascinating to listen with the score to hand. It made me wonder what this piece sounds like on a mid-nineteenth century piano. The performance was quite impressive but when you look at the prestissimo marking, this sounds too slow. But I'm not sure you can play it much quicker with the depth of key action on a modern grand. Really I think Mendelssohn wrote it for something with a much lighter action, where the fingers could literally fly across the keys.
@@Whatismusic123 And Mendelssohn nothing when compared to Mozart and Mozart nothing when compared to Bach, eh? I don't think it's that honerable to undermine the admiration of other people for different composers by telling them that composer X would have been better than composer Y. 🤔
@@Whatismusic123 Not yet, but that's the usual chain of comparison when one starts to compare the greatness of composers. "Bach is the beginning and end of all music", at least that's what Max Reger thought. 🤔
No, if you look at the 'Prestissimo' tempo marking, it's actually too slow. Dunno why people always start to cry when Mendelssohn is played passionately fast and with fire.
Yes, I noticed that speed seems to be an issue with so many of these performers playing Mendelssohn. Part of the issue is that these works do not see as much attention from concert artists, so we have to take what we can get from the people recording it, which often means less mature interpretations combined with technical grievances. However, I wouldn't dwell too much on an error like that in this specific recording. The artist is obviously putting 100% of their effort and passion into this, and the actual execution of their interpretation is pretty good. For that, a small technical fault is easily overlooked.
@@bm4114 this is an issue with many smaller, less known works. The performer did a good job. I'm merely saying that the technical demands of this piece make it difficult to find a 100% competent recording when it just hasn't been recorded/performed by as many people. Quoth Beethoven: to make mistakes is human, but to play without passion is unforgivable.
Benjamin Frith. A clever and we'll educated pianist. He did a marvelous work here. Bravo!
A beautiful performance of this amazing composition 🥰✨🎶
A brilliant piece! Should be heard much more often than it is!
I'm diminishing myself to 7th heaven listening to this.
Go Felix! (I visited your house in Leipzig) 👍🏼
amazing !!
Sounds like how Mendelssohn would write a Mephisto Waltz, at least the beginning lol
Pearl The Pug THATS TRUE ACTUALLY
Lucas Tujan glad I’m not the only one hearing it!
Same with M's Scherzo a capriccio
この作品は大前提にフンメルやベートーヴェン等の古典の影響があり、同世代ならアルカンの血を薄めた様な者です。
If you stop and look at the first page of the score, you'll notice that the piece was written in 1825. And what were YOU doing at 16 years old... (originally got the math wrong....)
One could say "Okay, he started early on playing the piano, was enormously talented and worked really hard, so it's somehow understandable that he was able to write a piece for solo piano like this."
But if one considers that he wrote his A Midsummer Night's Dream overture one year later as he was just 17 ... one starts to think about the possibility that maybe W. Mozart is a little bit overrated. One thing for sure I'd say: Mendelssohn is underrated by many.
@@Simon_A. not to mention that he wrote his octet at 16 as well
@@Simon_A. And also keep into account the enormous support Mozart had from his father, who was also a professional composer himself. It turns out that the day Leopold stopped publishing his own work, is the day Mozart junior started to publish. Although Mendelssohn also had quite some support, being born in a rich family with the right connections and money. Weren't they friends with Goethe? And also perhaps, an indirect "fruit" of a grandfather who was still poor - but worked his way up as a self-made scholar and philosopher - it started with him, and probably resulted in very good conditions for a supertalent as Felix to grow.
BTW Felix was not underrated, he was and is still celebrated as one of the most famous composers of Western culture. Truly underrated is Fanny Mendelssohn, Felix's sister who is allegedly as brilliant as him, in a time that female composers were structurally ignored. A quote from a Master's thesis in musicology from Elly Tarpenning: "This study shows that Fanny was a gifted and creative composer, even surpassing Felix and predating Brahms with her compositional ideas and progressive uses of harmony"
@@Simon_A. mendelssohn is nothing when compared to mozart.
6/8 time? This is 3/8! 🤔
oops 😬
Just about to say lol
Just diff scoring
Beautiful Work
Thank you for making the time and effort to load this. It is really fascinating to listen with the score to hand. It made me wonder what this piece sounds like on a mid-nineteenth century piano. The performance was quite impressive but when you look at the prestissimo marking, this sounds too slow. But I'm not sure you can play it much quicker with the depth of key action on a modern grand. Really I think Mendelssohn wrote it for something with a much lighter action, where the fingers could literally fly across the keys.
wtf
Nice
Very solid piece. This rivals amomgst the greatest compositions
This pretty much resembles the 3rd mvt of his fantasy op.28
Op. 5 and 16 y old Mendelssohn. WOW! This is something! Even Litz Played it and likef it. 😯
Increíble!
All I could say after that is wow🔥
Très beau.
Oh la france !!!!
I tried playing this 10 years ago. Not as polished as you but playing jazz is my bag not classical! You can see it on my you tube channel
Why does this remind me of the third movement of Clementi’s F# minor sonata
Somehow, I sense the spirit of Alkan in this piece...
Thank you! I was thinking the same. Quatre Ages, 20 ans was coming to mind and a little of Scherzo Diabolico
alkan is nothing when compared to mendelssohn
@@Whatismusic123 And Mendelssohn nothing when compared to Mozart and Mozart nothing when compared to Bach, eh? I don't think it's that honerable to undermine the admiration of other people for different composers by telling them that composer X would have been better than composer Y. 🤔
@@Simon_A. when did I say mozart was nothing when compared to bach?
@@Whatismusic123 Not yet, but that's the usual chain of comparison when one starts to compare the greatness of composers. "Bach is the beginning and end of all music", at least that's what Max Reger thought. 🤔
This song makes me want to have a light saber duel
Thought i was listening to Angry Birds at first!
Yesss XD
1:47
the real reason why Left handed people are exist in this world
Can definitely pick up how he influenced Alkan.
Sounds like Czerny
Totally agree ... but I don't know if that's a compliment = :)
5:03
I heard Angry Birds
0:23
orange beige noir
Baroque music
A little too fast and not singing enough ... The fingers are not everything
Is this what you do?
It's almost as if 'Prestissimo' ment 'very, very fast'
Too fast 😢
Yes for them at 0:21 had to slow left hand octaves down. I don't have that problem however
No, if you look at the 'Prestissimo' tempo marking, it's actually too slow.
Dunno why people always start to cry when Mendelssohn is played passionately fast and with fire.
I don't think this piece has much musical value.
Dang why do you say that
Octaves slow at 0:20 not good enough technique
Shall we get a manager for you?
Yes, I noticed that speed seems to be an issue with so many of these performers playing Mendelssohn. Part of the issue is that these works do not see as much attention from concert artists, so we have to take what we can get from the people recording it, which often means less mature interpretations combined with technical grievances. However, I wouldn't dwell too much on an error like that in this specific recording. The artist is obviously putting 100% of their effort and passion into this, and the actual execution of their interpretation is pretty good. For that, a small technical fault is easily overlooked.
@@ninjaassassin27 if this is taking what we can get you obviously haven’t heard me play. Now THAT would be just taking what we could get. 😂
@@bm4114 this is an issue with many smaller, less known works. The performer did a good job. I'm merely saying that the technical demands of this piece make it difficult to find a 100% competent recording when it just hasn't been recorded/performed by as many people. Quoth Beethoven: to make mistakes is human, but to play without passion is unforgivable.
How many can get this right? 🤔🫣
1:46
4:30
Too fast 😪
2:41
0:22
0:44
1:18