Symphoniekonzert IV

Even in his early years, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy astonished audiences with his exceptional compositional skills. Infusing classical forms with a new Romantic spirit and giving sound and expression new dimensions were hallmarks of his creative work. This is evident both in his ingenious overture to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream — the work of a seventeen-year-old — and in the concert overture Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt from 1828, a musical reflection on two atmospherically very different poems by the revered Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

The very young Mendelssohn is represented here by his Violin Concerto in D minor, accompanied solely by strings; though trained in the style of Mozart, it is nonetheless shaped by his own individual approach. In the Reformations-Symphonie, however—composed in 1830 to mark the 300th anniversary of the Augsburg Confession in 1830 and premiered two years later with the Berlin Court Orchestra under his own direction, a serious, solemn tone emerges, while the quotations included—the “Dresden Amen” and Luther’s chorale “A Mighty Fortress”—point to the sacred realm.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Meeresstille und glückliche Fahrt op. 27

Concert for Violin and string orchestra d-Moll

Ouverture to Ein Sommernachtstraum op. 21

Symphony No. 5 d-Moll op. 107 Reformations-Symphonie

Artists/Collaborators: (Komponist/in), (Autor/in)

Next date:

• Date Tuesday, 12/January/2027 19:00 (1 more date)
• Venue Staatsoper Unter den Linden
• Address Unter den Linden 7, 10117 Berlin-Mitte