Just Landed icon-chevron Expand submenuġ.1 Molto Moderato - Scherzo, for String Quartet, JS 134ġ.2 Scherzo, for String Quartet in B minorġ.3 String Quartet in E Flat Major, JS 184: I.Featured Collections icon-chevron Expand submenu.South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands (GBP £).At that time he confessed to a close friend: “I have suffered and learned a great deal. The quartet is written between the Third and Fourth Symphonies. He put the finishing touches to the score in London, where he was staying to conduct a series of concerts, in March, 1909. Sibelius, already in a deeply depressed state of mind, began working on the first ideas of his string quartet in D minor, op. At the time of his early cello compositions for his brother he had already written three string quartets in the tradition of Beethoven and Schumann, but we can hardly call these mature works. The premiere was given in Helsinki on 8 February, 1904, but that of the revised version was given at the Berliner Singakademie eighteen month later. 47 (1903) had failed to impress contemporary performers or the public. Jean Sibelius’ international reputation is primarily as a composer of symphonic works, and his songs and chamber music are still considered to be of a lesser quality. There exist a number of cello works written for him by his brother Jean. Christian, like his father, was to pursue a career in medicine, but he was also a proficient cellist. Jean played the violin, Linda the piano and Christian the cello. The three children leamed to play instruments and later formed a piano trio in their 14 hometown of Hämeenlinna. Under a mountain of unpaid bills, the Sibelius estate was soon declared bankrupt. The mother of three children, Linda (born 1863), Jean (Johan Julius Christian, born 1865) and Christian (born 1869), she had recently lost her husband to typhus. It is remarkable how articulate and self-confident is the young Mendelssohn.ġn 1869, Maria Sibelius was forced by tragic circumstances to return to her mother’s home. Mendelsohn’s written style and the manner in which he 11 discuses certain subjects depend on whether the letter was intended for his mother or a friend, or for his father. Although true to an extent, in practice the family had little choice: even in those days Jewish children were generally not allowed to attend public schools in Germany. Private instructors visited the home of the Mendelssohns, creating an impression of an upper class, aristocratic upbringing which the average family could not afford. This education included lessons in ancient and modem languages, mathematics, drawing, gymnastics and, of course, music. The art of writing was part of the so-called “education of mind and body” that his parents Lea (1774 – 1842) and Abraham Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1776 -1835) chose for Felix, his two sisters Fanny and Rebekka, and his brother Paul, starting from their early childhood. These numbers seem incredible if we consider how short his life was (1809 – 1847). It is estimated that he wrote about seven thousand letters, because we know of about the same number of letters addressed to him: no less than five thousand of which still exist. To understand the phenomenon that was Mendelssohn we can study his voluminous correspondence with his family, friends and colleagues. Also both composers studied and worked at the Berliner Singakademie, although almost a century apart. Both have the feel of mature works, even though Mendelssohn wrote his quartet as a teenager, and both display great craftsmanship, personality and intimacy. These two works have more in common than one might think. 56 The string quartet “voces intimae” by Jean Sibelius is traditionally combined with other Scandinavian works by such composers as Edward Grieg, but this recording couples it with the A minor string quartet op. SKU: COBRA0003 Category: Albums Description ‘inner connections’
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