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Felix Mendelssohn's Octet in E-flat major, Op. 20, was composed in the autumn of 1825 and completed on October 15, when the composer was 16. He wrote it as a birthday gift for his friend and violin teacher Eduard Ritz (1802-1832); it was slightly revised in 1832 before the first public performance on 30 January 1836 at the Leipzig Gewandhaus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://nyphil.org/programNotes/Mendelssohn_Octet%20for%20Strings_1011.pdf ) – NY Philharmonic program notes PDF〕 Conrad Wilson summarizes much of its reception ever since: "Its youthful verve, brilliance and perfection make it one of the miracles of nineteenth-century music." ==Structure== The work comprises four movements: #''Allegro moderato ma con fuoco'' #''Andante'' #''Scherzo'' #''Presto'' A typical performance of the work lasts around thirty minutes, with the first movement usually comprising roughly half of this. The scherzo, later scored for orchestra as a replacement for the minuet in the composer's First Symphony at its premiere, is believed to have been inspired by a section of Goethe's Faust entitled "Walpurgis Night's Dream."〔(Program notes ) from a concert at the Kennedy Center〕 Fragments of this movement recur in the finale, as a precursor to the "cyclic" technique employed by later 19th-century composers. The entire work is also notable for its extended use of counterpoint, with the finale, in particular, beginning with an eight-part fugato. The work has been compared to Louis Spohr's 1823 Double Quartet No. 1 in D minor, Op. 65. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Octet (Mendelssohn)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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