Mendelssohn: Concerto in D minor
Composer
Key
D Minor
Nationality
German
Time Signature
4/4, 3/8, 2/4
LISTING
Annotation
Movement I
Key: D minor
Range: G3-F6
Tempo: Allegro
Time Signature: 4/4
Left Hand
- Mostly 1st – 3rd positions
- Sixteenth note runs mostly stepwise
- Trills
- 11 measure melodic passage in Db
- Minimal shifting into 5th position (7-8 measures depending on fingering used)
- Rapid shifting
Bowing
- Mostly legato detaché with slurred sixteenth notes
- Martelé
- Detaché porté
- Spiccato
- Bariolage – 3 measures
- Louré
- Accented Detaché
Rhythm
- 1 beat sixteenths alternating with 1 beat of triplet
- 1 septuplet run with 2 grace notes – 1 grace note at the beginning of the run, and 1 grace note in the run.
Movement II
Key: D Major (56 measures) – D minor (34 measures) – A Major (61 measures) – D Major (94 measures)
Range: G#3-A6
Tempo: Andante
Time Signature: 3/8
Left Hand
- 1st – 5th positions
- Short cadenza with broken thirds run
- Natural Harmonics
Bowing
- Legato detaché
- Up-Bow Staccato
- Louré
Rhythm
- Triplet sixteenths
- 32nd note runs
Movement III
Key: D Minor
Range:
Tempo: Allegro
Time Signature: 2/4
Left Hand
- Rapid 16th note mostly step-wise motion passages
- Trills – 2
- 8 measure Adagio in the middle of movement transitioning into cadenza
- Broken chords across 3 strings – bowed with slurred bariolage
- 4 triple-stop chords
Bowing
- Up-Bow Staccato
- Spiccato
- Martelé
- Detaché Ponté
- Slurred Bariolage (10 measures)
Rhythm
- Lots of sixteenth note runs
- Time Signature changes from Adagio into Presto tempos, returning to Tempo primo
Recording
Sheet Music
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Violin Concerto In D Minor Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Edited by Yehudi Menuhin. Violin & Piano. Classical Period. Set of performance parts (includes separate pull-out violin part). With solo part, piano reduction and introductory text. 52 pages. Edition Peters #EP6070. Published by Edition Peters (PE.EP6070). |
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Concerto in D minor MWV O 4
Urtext based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Complete Edition. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Edited by Christoph Hellmundt. Partitur-Bibliothek (Score Library). Mendelssohn's Double Concerto in D minor is no longer an unfamiliar title on our concert programs. Study score. Breitkopf and Haertel #PB-5613-07. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.PB-5613-07). |
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