Dear Kuhlau, first of all I want to thank you for opening up to us so many undiscovered treasures! The greatest gift you gave me was the miraculous Requiem by Osip Kozlovsky - one of the greatest discoveries of my life! I would like to point to you a gem which probably even you have never heard of: In the beginning of last year I made the most interesting discovery that in the month his violin concerto had it's first performance (March/April 1845) Mendelssohn was working on a 6th symphony in C-Major! For the 1st mov. he wrote the first about 80 bars in full score and some sketches for the 2nd theme and the development. This fascinated me so much that I tried to make a full movement of it. I finally could also get the sketches for a second movement from a library in Oxford and made it to complete also this to a whole Andante movement of about 14 minutes. The first 2:50 minutes are based on a full melody sketch with various hints to the accompaniement by Mendelssohn. After orchestrating this I continued with a new middle part with various themes with each increasing in strength and coming to a dramatic climax with an appassionate fugato. After this various variations of Mendelssohn's beautiful Andante theme follow until a recapitulation of the beginning and a most tender final variation. I.Allegro http://www.gerdprengel.de/Mendelssohn_unfinished_symphony1.mp3 http://www.gerdprengel.de/Symphony_in_C_Allegro.pdf II. Andante cantabile http://www.gerdprengel.de/Mendelssohn_unfinished_symphony_Andante.mp3 http://www.gerdprengel.de/Mendelssohn_unfinished_symphony_Andante.pdf It would help me with your huge insight in so many works of that era to get your impressions of this work ... Thank you Regards, Gerd
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This my be off topic, but is there any way that you can upload this music to a video?: Lento per orchestra d'archi "Elegie - Ungernkrisen" (with Royal Swedish Chamber Orchestra)
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Sweet!
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