MUSC 2380 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Violin Concerto (Mendelssohn), Dazzle Camouflage, Eidetic Memory
5 Jul 2016
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The concerto is a genre that combines two of the 19th century"s favorite musical pleasures: grand orchestral music and virtuoso showmanship. The concerto had become the vehicle for interplay between the dazzle of a single player and the power of the orchestra. Some may go even further and say that it was a depiction of the person against society. Mendelsson himself wrote double concertos for two pianos and for piano and the violin. The one that mendelsson knew was one of europe"s leading cultural centers almost known as a little paris. The recent completion of germany"s first long distance railroad which connected leipzig with dresden together with famous trade fairs made it a central traffic and commerce area. Him and schumann both helped make the audiences more musically sophisticated. 31 years after bach"s death, leipzig opened their first concert hall known as gewandhaus growing with more importance as time went on. He had his first performance there three years later.
