Breitkopf & Hartel Early Pieces - Mendelssohn/Muller - Violin/Piano - Book

Composer: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
Editor: Birgit Muller
Format: Book
Instrumentation: Violin and Piano

Urtext from the Leipzig Mendelssohn Edition edited by Birgit Muller [vl,pno]

first Urtext edition based on the Complete Edition
moderate level of difficulty facilitates access to Mendelssohn's soundscape

Mendelssohn's relationship with the violin was a special one. Although he had a profound command of this instrument and throughout his life was often heard playing the violin and even the viola, his main focus remained on his principal instrument, the piano. This edition is dedicated exclusively to Mendelssohn's early works for violin and piano from the years 1819 to 1821. They were written during Mendelssohn's composition studies with Carl Friedrich Zelter and have been handed down to us in his music books.
The five short pieces have never before been published in a printed edition. They are now available in an Urtext edition based on the Leipzig Mendelssohn Edition.
Compared to other works by Mendelssohn, they are of moderate difficulty and thus perfectly suitable for piano and violin students.

Contents:

• Andante in D minor MWV Q 4
• Fugue in D minor MWV Q 5
• Minuet in G major MWV Q 8
• [Prelude] in D minor and [Fugue] in G minor MWV Z1/97
• Undesignated Piece in G minor MWV Z1/104