Blogs
Felix Mendelssohn ‘String Quintet No.1’: Youthful Strings
Felix Mendelssohn: String Quintet No.1 Context Felix Mendelssohn’s First String Quintet (Op.18) was composed in 1826, and then revised later in 1832. The main cause for the revision was the composer’s dissatisfaction with the original minuet movement, so instead Mendelssohn wrote in a slow movement in memory of violinist Eduard Read more…