HDM in Concert: Mendelssohn - Streichquartette II
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The String Quartet, Op. 12, was composed in 1829 as the third of seven works in this genre (to which individual movements must be added). The music of the twenty-year-old, successful young man is self-assured, full of joie de vivre and enchantingly fresh. Mendelssohn’s intense engagement with Bach and Beethoven is clearly evident in this masterfully constructed piece. Mendelssohn’s Op. 80, by contrast, is a heart-rending Requiem for the composer’s highly gifted sister, Fanny Hensel-Mendelssohn (b. 1805), who died suddenly in Berlin on 14 May 1847, and with whom he had shared a deep, intimate bond. Contrary to its later opus number, the String Quartet Op. 13 was written before Op. 12, between July and October 1827, composed under the impression of Beethoven’s death. Mendelssohn engaged intensively with Beethoven’s late quartets at the time, yet carried forward the innovations of the highly revered ‘Titan’ in a highly independent and innovative manner.
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