The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra in
E major
E major (or the key of E) is a major scale based on E, consisting of the pitches E, F, G, A, B, C, and D. Its key signature has four sharps. Its relative minor is C-sharp minor and its parallel minor is E minor. Its enharmonic equivalent, ...
was written in the late summer and early fall of 1823 by the young
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositions include sy ...
when he was 14 years old. It was first performed in December 1823 with Felix and his sister
Fanny Mendelssohn
Fanny Mendelssohn (14 November 1805 – 14 May 1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era who was also known as Fanny (Cäcilie) Mendelssohn Bartholdy and, after her marriage, Fanny Hensel (as well as Fanny Mendelssohn He ...
as the two soloists. Regarded as immature by the composer, the work remained unpublished during his lifetime, though he substantially revised it, perhaps a decade after the première, in which form the ''Leipziger Ausgabe der Werke Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy'' published it in 1961.
Structure
There are three
movements
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Common uses
* Movement (clockwork), the internal mechanism of a timepiece
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Literature
* "Movement" (short story), a short story by Nancy Fu ...
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References
* Lindeman, Stephan D. (editor), "Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra", A-R Editions, Madison, 1999
External links
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Pianos two
1823 compositions
Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 18094 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early Romantic music, Romantic period. Mendelssohn's compositi ...
Compositions in E major
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