Quartet COp 13 of Mendelssohn Bartholdy

The String quartet in the minor op.13 is a work of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy written between July and October 1827.

Mendelssohn wrote seven complete quartets and several parts for this formation like some unfinished partitions. This quartet is the first published, the second being his second quartet posterior two years although having a lower number of opus (n° 12). It is about an early work, the musician being hardly 17 years old at the time of its writing. It had already been interested in this musical formation with a Quatuor in major E flat of 1823 (it was then 14 years old). The date of composition of sound opus 13 follows also little the death of Ludwig van Beethoven and its inspiration feels some.

The first took place in Paris on February 14th 1832 by a quartet whose Pierre Baillot held the first violin.

It is composed of four movements and its execution takes approximately a little less than one half an hour. The adagio begin with a topic taken again from a Lied not very front made up, its COp 9 n° 1, Frage (" question"). Work finishes, like a cycle, on this same topic.

Adagio - long-lived Allegro

Adagio not lento
Intermezzo

Presto - Adagio not lento

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