Editor’s Pick: Marvelous Mozart And Mendelssohn
metroweekly.comFelix Mendelssohn was a 19th-century musical prodigy in Germany whose stature in the 19th century came close to rivaling that of a towering Austrian giant from a century earlier, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.Both were acclaimed pianists, conductors, and teachers in their respective eras, and compositions from the two are represented in the last concert of the National Chamber Ensemble’s Season 15, dubbed the “Reuniting with the Masters, Live!” season.The Arlington-based group’s “Marvelous Mozart and Mendelssohn” program features a piano quartet from each composer: the Piano Quartet No.
2 in E Flat Major, which Mozart composed in 1786, or just five years before his death at age 35; and the Piano Quartet No. 2 in F Minor, which Mendelssohn, who only lived to the age of 38, composed in 1823 when he was just 14 years of age.
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