Felix Mendelssohn's works for solo piano and orchestra are the A-Minor Concerto (1822), the Capriccio brillant, op. 22 (1831-32), the Piano Concerto in G Minor, op. 25 (1831), the Rondo brillant, op. 29 (1833-34), the Piano Concerto in D Minor, op. 40 (1837), and the Serenade and Allegro giojoso, op. 43 (1838). Almost all were composed specifically for Mendelssohn's own performances, and only the Capriccio brillant originated as a solo piano work. Manuscript evidence and contemporary sources suggest that the versions of the G-Minor Concerto, the D-Minor Concerto, and the Serenade and Allegro giojoso which Mendelssohn first performed differed considerably from the eventual published pieces. The autograph sources reveal that Mendelssohn generally had a clear grasp of his thematic material fairly early in the compositional process and worked to link his ideas and to develop them, integrating them into transitional passages and into the piano solo part. The orchestrations for the mature concertos, and for the Allegro of the Serenade and Allegro giojoso, contain no piano solo, which allowed more revision to the piano part. Mendelssohn revised many of these works after they were supposedly finished, even after a piece was sent to the publisher. In spite of Mendelssohn's obsessive revisions to his solo parts his compositional concerns were largely unrelated to the prevalent ideals of virtuosic piano writing. The Opus 25 orchestral score shows the creation of the work's cyclical structure and the integration of thematic material into the piece. The numerous autograph sources of the D-Minor Concerto reveal an unsurpassed seriousness of purpose. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-02, Section: A, page: 0368. / Major Professor: Douglass Seaton. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1993.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76863 |
| Contributors | Wilson, Marian., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 510 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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