メンデルスゾーンのピアノ協奏曲第一番作品２５の楽譜です。右側にあるのが１３歳当時練習していた譜面で、左側が最近新しく買った譜面。ニューヨークのコンチェルトコンクールで初めて優勝した時の課題曲でした。音楽の世界で生きていきたいと、強く願うようになったきっかけの曲でもあります。今月リリース予定の「１０００Winds」は亡くなった音楽家達に捧げて作りましたが、メンデルスゾーンもその内の一人。奇しくも11／2が命日のスバと同じ３８歳でこの世を去っています。
Felix Mendelssohn was a German composer,pianist,conductor of the early Romantic period.
He began taking piano lessons from his mother when he was six,and probably made his first public concert appearance at age of 9.He wrote his first published work, by the time he was 13.
I first played his piano concerto when I was 13 years old,and fell in love with his beautiful melody. He died in Leipzig on 4 November, when he was only 38. (Just the same age as Suba that I wrote about on 2 November's blog.)