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Yes! The Adagio is one of my favorites

@@lucasantoniotujan7783 Just realized he only wrote two sonatas. Pity!

@@andresmartinezgutierrez8420 he wrote 3 piano sonatas

Masterpiece by Mendelssohn, you wrong

@@rushana1956 No, he's saying the performance is by Chiu. He's not saying that Chiu wrote it.

@@caterscarrots3407 yes but chiu shouldn't take the credit

@@ciararespect4296 What are you even talking about? Chiu is listed as the performer, not the composer.

@@piano1500 oh my bad. Who cares about Chiu anyway. Anyone with good piano chops can play it? Mendelssohn should be the one praised here

I wonder how common it was at the time (if at all) to have such extended sections without bar lines, and then to constantly change tempo and time signature. And how in this world can anyone manage to READ such a frickin' score?! It's like Mendelssohn took a trip on a time machine to the 20th century. :-)

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I had to read that book. But Sonatas 28 and 31 does not had the same too?

@@alanleoneldavid1787 Good point! However, in Beethoven's Sonata No. 28 the material from the first movement is used briefly as a transition from the third movement to the fourth movement. In Sonata No. 31 the subject of the Fugue in the last movement only 'resembles' the first movement of the sonata. In neither of the two sonatas, the material from the first movement plays an organic role in the finale, the way it does in Mendelssohn's. You can see a similar treatment in Mendelssohn's Sonata in B flat major, Op. 106 (whose opening is inspired by Beethoven's Hammerklavier), except that in that case, Mendelssohn brings back the Scherzo (the second movement) about 2 minutes into the Finale.

Wait, it seems as though this piece is extremely similar in structure to Beethoven's 28th sonata.

This Sonata was a very conscious homage to Beethoven. It shows how Mendelssohn was aware of what Beethoven was innovating in terms of structure and harmony. He took a few concepts as guidelines for his own Sonata: a return of the 1st movement theme in the last movement, connected movements, 3rd movement fugue, and a tempo/meter-free slow movement, to outline the most basic. Check out Mendelssohn's Opus 106 in Bb for another homage, this time to the Hammerklavier. Much less successful as a work, but Mendelssohn was a couple of years younger! LOL

I think that's true, indeed, the whole sonata seems to be meant as a great loving reference to Beethoven... as if young Mendelssohn liked to hide hints to all of his beloved Beethoven favourites... He seems to have played all of B's late (or perhaps all) sonatas before 1825 when he composed this. And, by the way, also Schubert...

Dont forget Beethoven 15th sonata too (opus 28), i find that passage from about 1:10 to 2:05 (more or less) very similar to sone parte in 1st movement of op. 28. And also last movement reminds me of the third movement of Beethoven Les Adieux sonata!

I do agree! The first time I listened to this sonata reminded me of Beethoven

Interesting, because I always thought the first movement of Beethoven's Opus 101 greatly influenced Mendelssohn, and here is a direct link!

It's not really difficult to interpret?

@@ciararespect4296 i was just really torn between different tempi and some phrasing with the senza tempo in the recitative. sorry if thats supposed to be common knowledge?

@@b-louprint oh no problem at least you pinpointed where it could be interpreted differently. I prefer to just give it my own flavour and interpret it as I see fit Rather than copying

@@ciararespect4296 actually its not copying tho. all of us musicians want to interpret and also shed some light on our personalities and the emotions we've experienced through our interpretations...im no different. but hearing a tempo and comparing my thoughts and theres i can make a better decision because ive heard both options. listening to talented pianists is the best way to learn more for you to understand what you want for your own sound. we are not simply "copying."

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