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Article: Die symphonien Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdys: untersuchungen zu Werkgestalt und Formstruktur.
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- June 1, 1994
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Felix Mendelssohn's symphonic oeuvre comprises about seventeen works, of which only three were published during his lifetime. The earliest are the twelve complete and one fragmentary string sinfonie, completed between 1821 and 1824 and first published in the 1960s. These juvenilia, which served as training pieces for Mendelssohn's later efforts in large-scale orchestral forms and textures, were followed by the C-minor Symphony (first performed in February 1824, reworked for the London premiere in 1829, and released in piano-duet arrangement in 1830 and in parts in 1834); the D-minor ("Reformation") Symphony (completed in May 1830 and premiered in Berlin in November 1832, but ...
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