Felix Mendelssohn

Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...

 wrote 12 string symphonies between the years of 1821 and 1823, aged between 12 and 14. For his mature symphonies, see here.

Structure

Most of the string symphonies were composed in three movements

Movement (music)

A movement is a self-contained part of a musical composition or musical form. While individual or selected movements from a composition are sometimes performed separately, a performance of the complete work requires all the movements to be performed in succession...

, with the exceptions of nos. 7, 8 and 9, which are in four movements, no. 10 which is in one movement, and no. 11 which is in five movements.

No. 11 in F major

1. Adagio – Allegro molto
2. Scherzo comodo. Schweizerlied
3. Adagio
4. Menuetto: Allegro moderato
5. Allegro molto

Symphoniesatz

Mendelssohn also wrote a movement for a string symphony in C minor, known as the "Symphoniesatz."