Largo and Allegro in D minor MWV O 1
score and parts
by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn
Orchestra - Sheet Music

Piano/harpsichord and orchestra

SKU: BR.MR-2270

Score and parts. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by Joachim Draheim. Orchestra; stapled. Musica Rara.

From the workshop of a wunderkind

Solo concerto; Romantic. Score and parts. Composed 2002. 28 pages. Breitkopf and Haertel #MR 2270. Published by Breitkopf and Haertel (BR.MR-2270).

ISBN 9790004488201. 9 x 12 inches.

In 1820, with all the youthful spirit of his eleven years, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy composed a Largo and Allegro for piano solo. He then added a string accompaniment, from which it does not clearly emerge whether he conceived it for a chamber ensemble or an orchestra. He ultimately forgot the little work, most likely before it was ever performed in public, and turned to new, larger projects. The performance at the University of Karlsruhe on 17 November 2000 was thus actually the world premiere. The Karlsruhe concert series headed by Joachim Draheim has already seen the first performances of a number of romantic rarities in the past. In his meticulously prepared first edition, Draheim gives musicians four different possibilities of performing Mendelssohn's Largo and Allegro:1) piano solo2) piano and string quartet3) piano and string quintet (with double bass)4) piano and string orchestra (with double bass)

From the workshop of a wunderkind.