Mendelssohn - Piano Concerto in A Minor {13 year old composer!) (1822) 

You could say he was A minor when he made this

I love this piece but the fact that Mendelssohn was 13 when he composed this just makes me want to rethink my life choices.

Mendelssohn is the greatest naturally gifted composer in history. Born with a sense for original melody and mastery of complex technique

L'œuvre d'un prodige, qui confirme que «la valeur n'attend pas le nombre des années» et a toujours autant de succès par sa beauté et la joie qui s'en dégage 🙏La maturité de l'adagio est incroyable !🎶💓🎶✨

Notwithstanding their admitted provincial nature due to the age they lived in, both Felix and Fanny are among the most underrated composers of the early Romantic period. Just because they died young (e.g.,Beethoven lived to 55), their stature is no different than Mozart's in my mind. Felix wrote more than 700 pieces of music and Fanny 460 within lexx than a 30-year period--many still unpublished and not in the repertoire. They were also artists and people of letters of which there are volumes. The intellectual beauty these two gave to the world is incredibly amazing and breathtaking if you think about it. And we should have the right to hear them all of their works. Who knows, perhaps there's another missing piano concerto played at one of the Mendelssohns' Sunday musicales and now stuffed away in some archive that missed the catalogue.

little felix the prodigy cat

I just can't get enough of this concerto

12:53 Almost exactly the same as the last movement of his G minor Concerto, No 1

One of my favorites.. The Great and VERY IMPORTANT to classical music, Felix Mendelssohn... if he would live 20 more years.. can you imagine?

I love seeing his own manuscript. Fascinating

I've been listening to it for months and I still enjoy it like it's the first time.

The third part is great. It just impossible to imagine that a child wrote it. I can listening endlessly.Thank you.

Love this----Mendelssohn is a very under rated composer, and there are many wonderful treasures out there that have yet to be discovered. (His sister was amazing too!)

Genialer Jugendstreich des Komponisten! Großes Lob den Interpreten! Stürmische Brillanz, zärtliches Innehalten - alles hat seinen Platz! Nicht zu vergessen: die Tontechnik: wunderbar räumliche Aufnahme! Insgesamt: ein Juwel!

This is amazing and to think he was 13. I love this difficult piano concerto. It needs to "get out there" because it is well-written and entertaining. Many juvenile works are tentative and insecure. This is amazingly fresh, bold, and dramatic. Felix, you are amazing!

amazing performance and even more so that he was only 13!

A very mature musical mind in a young body. The pianist is amazing!

Love the cello solo on first movement, THIS IS AMAZING

amazing, and so mature at his age

Delightful!

Wow... just discovering this little gem of Mendelssohn now. Fantastic! But then, it's Mendelssohn, so how could it be anything less than great? Thank you for sharing! This must have made Bach and Mozart smile from the beyond. :)

This is actually so good that I got goosebumps.

Absolutely brilliant....thank you for uploading this! Wonderful piece.......

The best version of this masterpiece I ever found! Thank's a lot. Both to you and Mendelssohn!

love it. pure genius! thanks for sharing!

Wow, fabulous what a joy to listen to. 13 years old !!!!!thank you so much for posting.👍👍👍👍🌹🌹🌹🌹🍾🥂

In retrospect the Octet was the worst thing to happen to Mendelssohn from a legacy standpoint. To write this fire-breathing masterpiece in its unique form for an integrated 8 string ensemble at the age of 16 seems so implausible that it has shadowed his entire output. Composer legacies unfortunately tend to be dominated by the narrative of a progression in style and those who show definite progressive advancement are often favored above those who do not. If Mozart had composed the C minor Piano Concerto as his first mature piano concerto, it would have devalued all the others. If Schubert had written the String Quintet earlier in his career, everything that followed would be judged in reference to it. Ironically, if the Octet was never written, or if it was written at the end of his career, I believe Mendelssohn would be valued more highly because all his other compositions could be viewed from a more normative perspective. The F minor and A minor String Quartets are some of the best of the genre but having been composed by the man who earlier wrote the more bombastic Octet they have never been accorded the acclaim they deserve. While Mozart was a prodigy, one can easily juxtapose the two G minor symphonies for instance and see that the one is greater. There's no work of Mozart's teenage years that can be called greater than later efforts in the same genre. If compositions existed in a vacuum and we had no idea of the ordering, I think we would be shocked how many legacies would change completely. But we have the dates. And so we have to live with the constant condescension that Mendelssohn is inferior for his lack of development all because he happened to write an idiosyncratic masterpiece as a 16 year old.

Beautiful piece from a beautiful mind.

1822 - still very Mozart. Three years later, he wrote the Midsummer Night's Dream overture, his first great and truly original work. Puzzling that there's so little Beethoven influence - a much sunnier disposition, I guess.

A deep respect for young FMB!

Gigante y colosal Mendelssohn, que nos dejó un legado de pasión, brillantez, claridad como agua cristalina y elocuencia, vivacidad como fuego que crece con la ligereza del aire, romance que penetra hasta los huesos, drama, alma y espíritud, amor y mucho corazón. Un incalculable tesoro para la humanidad.

Wonderful! I also remember hearing a Violin Concerto he wrote at the same age.

Это чудо,это блестяще,это как восход солнца в пасмурный день,это пробуждение Души! Браво Мендельсон! Браво пианисту,блестящее исполнение,можно слушать без конца и восхищаться!ВОСТОРГ ,СЧАСТЬЕ ,ЧТО ЕСТЬ ЭТА МУЗЫКА!

Brillantissime ce dernier mouvement ! Quel gamin !! Époustouflant !

Mendelssohn's juvenalia eclipses Mozart's notwithstanding the wealth and privilege that the former enjoyed. However, the pure energy here of youthful musical power could not be sustained even as early as the G minor piano concerto. It is no wonder the composer was entombed by a stroke at 38. That said, to listen to this and other contemporaneous works such as the Trumpet Overture seem beyond human possibilities. And to follow the original score in its broad sweep of detail is just stunning in its genius. How lucky was the holder of a bi-weekly invitation to a Mendelssohn Sunday musicale in the 1820s. S/he experienced a special magic that none of us before or since could have ever even imagined.

What a new year's present YOUR UPLOAD & this discovery ! So funny, the comments here, a Concerto in a-minor from a minor. Young happy prodigy Felix was no copy cat when he penned this beautiful work. PS i love Emily Bear who upholds the cheerful classic tradition without being hellbent on modernism.

Fantastic, magnific.

Thanks, Bartje. A better performance than I have on CD. Isn't it wonderful such a young boy writing this joyful piece.

Я под большим впечатлением! Спасибо!

El Mozart del siglo XIX . Bravo !!

Bravo brilliance concerto music super

astonishing!

very nice

Love the soothing piano part and upbeat melody.

classical style with the modern instrument technique and range

Magnifique...tout simplement !!!

Wonderfull . Awesome Concerto for Piano - Genial . Many Thanks Dear Bartje

What a truly delightful work. All the more so as the work of a young teen. Thank you for posting this and for including the scrolling autograph score!

Felix Mendelssohn:a-moll Zongoraverseny 1.Allegro 00:00 2.Adagio 13:30 3.Rondo:Allegro, ma non troppo 22:09 Cyprien Katsaris-zongora Liszt Ferenc Kamarazenekar Vezényel:Rolla János

This is fantastic !!

Thank you for introducing this delightful piano concerto into my life BB. I actually prefer it to the rather showy one every one plays.

Pure genius

I didn't even know there was a piano concerto in A minor unti today. Adore Mendelssohns music. Can honestly say that I have not heard one piece by him that isn't anything short of genius. Very similar to Mozart in many respects. Adore his tutti writing, he summons up such energy and power, incredible writing

Wow, at thirteen years old, what a genius. At thirteen I could barely wade thru a Mozart sonata. Thanks for uploading, great sound. 👍👍👍🤗🤗🆒🆒🍾🥂🌹

Extraordinaire !

Interestingly, Mendelssohn never changed his writing style in his two mature piano concertos. The content just matured quite a bit yet the fluid arpeggios, repeated chords in LH accompanying a gorgeous melody in the RH are still evident.

Thanks for uploading!

He composed this at 13. I could barely play twinkle twinkle little stars at 13.

Daily dose of satisfaction

Thank you so much for your posting.Just recall our 13 age,what was we doing? I was touched immediately when I read first melody of his violin concert in E minor but did not who is him yet.

Beautiful

wow amazing

Nice performance👏👏👏👏👏👍

His handwriting looks like Mozart's

Si bien la genialidad nace y no se aprende me sorprende el dominio técnico que muestra para sus trece años

I'm puzzled that this concerto is so obscure. I find it more thrilling than the other two, and I have no complaints about those. Pianistically, it sounds like it would be more difficult to play.

wow amazing :) thx for uploading :)

ce felix mendelsshon tres grand compositeur aussi bien en symphonie en tout genre de classique quelle qui sois et grand diose tres bon a ecoute même en travallan cela ferais passer le temp !

This at 13, and im almost positive this WASNT his first concerto!!

Oh my. He was THirteEeeeen.

What a great video! Keep them coming. Just subscribed to your video!

Impressionante!

very tangoesque ... :-)

23:14 This passage sounds very much like Vivaldi, or at least the Italian Baroque style in general. (Especially the conversation between the violins starting at 23:29)

Technically very advanced concerto compare to his two later concertos written when he was in his early 20's.

Best piece ive heard at his age

mendelsohn est un compositeur de génie pas assez reconnu ,, mort trop jeune comme souvent on devine la jeunesse , le fougue a travers chacune des notes de concerto plein d enthousiasme ,

Thanks

I saw alma deutsher’s piano concerto and came back to Mendelssohn’s piano concerto Because they basically wrote these at the same age and both are geniuses but Sorry alma I still think this concerto is better and my favorite Ps : pianist here

I can't believe how long he withheld that C Major resolution from 2:54 to 3:42, just dancing around on the dominant of G. Truly the machinations of a teenager. Even the fermatas on the rests at 3:37 (which are not given proper attention by the performer) indicate that Mendelssohn intended this to be incredibly long-winded.

mendelssohn was a awesome prodigy it is a shame he died so young him and many others music needs to played in our time and leave the great composer music a rest for a time

To everyone in the comments saying " I was struggling doing X or Y at 13 years old" the only pertinent metric of achievement is the ratio of time and effort you put in something, over actual result, not your age. It's just useless to put oneself down like you are doing.

Wow. A masterpiece at any age by any composer. Can't believe this is not in the standard repertoire. Just amazing. Of course Clara Schumann wrote a piano concerto at age 14 (opus 7) that is much more difficult to play (thought must say his final coda does not look easy!) than this one but to me this is music of a much higher standard. Of course just opinions...wow, that melody at 19:50 such mature beauty in simplicity and the orchestra that leads up to that point just masterful.

The melody at around 13:00 sounds like the final movement of his Piano Concerto 1

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! IMPRESIONANTE ! ? COMO SE PUEDEN ESCRIBIR TANTAS NOTAS E INTERPRETARLAS ? ADEMAS LLENAS DE BELLEZA !!!

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If i didn't know it was felix who composed it I would have thought it was Mozart who composed this.....it's amazing so joyful and such maturity it doesn't sound like it was composed by 13 year old what genius

Ce fut un génie !

what's genius,he was indeed.

Ainda está muito clássico!

He quotes Mozart.......Another "genius" of the times!!!

Pretty interesting sheets.

This reminds me of Hummel's second concerto

I'm no musician bur I like watching the acrual hand notion while listening. No wonder talent memorizes the score; it would be tought translating in actual performance fromit, I bet.

the opening theme sounds like the Tico-Tico no fubá, ain't it?

it seems to me this wonderful concerto foreshadows the first e minor of Chopin.

Perhaps one of the most ingenious of all the composers.

驚くべき才能！

At 13 years old, I was still playing with my legos