Felix Mendelssohn - String Quartet No. 6 in F minor, Op. 80 (Artemis Quartet)

[@Aaron-e6f9b]

0:00 - I. Allegro vivace assai 7:01 - II. Allegro assai 11:26 - III. Adagio 19:22 - IV. Allegro molto

[@СофияСамушенкова]

Thank you

[@simonkawasaki4229]

The whole world is in this quartet.

[@richie6337]

Underrated comment.

[@ClassicalMusicAndSoundtracks]

One the greatest pieces of chamber music. This shows very well the greatness of Mendelssohn.

[@julienbencze]

The tension in this quartet is impressive, in particular in the 1st movement and in the finale. Going through this masterpiece of composition and interpretation is a wonder, hearing the silence after the last chord is almost like a relief.

[@ianperru266]

This is definitely one of my favourites romantic string quartets, i had never heard this particular recording, but now i think this is the best one i've heard, thanks for uploading it.

[@klop4228]

The Artemis Quartet have some very good recordings of lots of stuff. Worth checking the rest of their output

[@osmargarnica]

@@klop4228 The recording of Octet Op. 20 with Jascha Heifetz is excellent too.

[@SergieRachmaninoff]

Have you listened to Quatuor Ebene's recording?

[@sayedattia113]

My tears goinig down with the third movement.

[@AdityaKhan-cq6qn]

24:20 this ending is always give me goosebump. Love it!

[@geo2088]

Thanks God I found this in a Playlist and seek for it🥰

[@silviojunior6709]

22:43 the best scale of the entire piece

[@robert-skibelo]

Thanks for uploading this. An excellent performance of a work previously unknown to me. Having the score is an enormous benefit, so thanks for troubling to provide this too.

[@jackhogan1280]

Written immediately after the sudden death of his beloved sister Fanny.

[@GreenTea4]

oh no, I didn't know that :( such a talented duo, both died so close to each other..

[@rodrigosamuelguinis717]

That was the reason why this quartet was given the name "A Requiem for Fanny"

[@AndiAngvil]

@@rodrigosamuelguinis717 and there is a reason for that key (F Minor)

[@richie6337]

And very soon... Mendelssohn died, equally sudden as his sister. A tragic but genuis family.

[@Cubestreak]

And Felix himself would die 6 months after. Truly heartbreaking

[@str4wberryg1rl]

0:56 That sounds soooo good!

[@raminkashani7347]

Yes he loved his sister from the depth of his heart

[@davidecarlassara8525]

Great piece and performance, thanks for the upload! But in the Finale the development starts at 20:55

[@viola1190]

Probably my favorite recording of the quartet... makes me wish I could play all the instruments so I could make my own

[@RiceStranger]

I'm the 999th like. I wonder who will be the next one to like this masterpiece, from this author whom I've just known of today.

[@thetshadow999animates9]

not me

[@taylordiclemente5163]

The 2nd movement's recap from trio to scherzo is destroyer!

[@khesova]

anyone else think that 7:01 is like absolutely fire cz I need to know what the dude was on when he made this 😭🙏

[@the2Dollar]

He wrote this after hearing of his sisters death. He died in the same year as well and this is his final work.

[@khesova]

@@the2Dollarabsolutely peak, I love ts piece so much 🙏‼️

[@pablobg9898]

Sublime obra e interpretación! Que suerte tenemos de poder escuchar la música de mendelssohn, realmente un placer.

[@OrKestrAlan]

Totalmente de acuerdo maravilloso

[@sayedattia113]

This is a magic

[@pablogr6960]

no ammount of 🔥can describe the second movement of this piece

[@VoLDos13]

the 21:50 is legendary

[@aboelsaudeldessuky4844]

superb.. Mendelssohn is one of the masters of romantic era

[@sanjai_s]

a tragic and grieving quartet

[@dracho8741]

I agree and it's a masterwork

[@quintallix]

Une performance merveilleuse.

[@RobvanderHilst]

L'immense chagrin de Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (=FMB) suite au décès de sa sœur bien-aimée Fanny le 14 mai 1847 à Berlin trouva un exutoire audible, notamment dans le deuxième mouvement furieux de son dernier et très sérieux quatuor à cordes. Ce n’est pas sans raison que ce chef-d’œuvre a été écrit en fa mineur, tonalité principale dramatique par définition. La mort du compositeur, le 4 novembre de la même année à Leipzig, est - et ce n'est pas à tort - associée à la tragédie de la mort tout à fait inattendue de sa sœur. Cette interprétation par le Quatuor Artemis de l'émouvante et très sombre protestation musicale de FMB contre la mort de Fanny - c'est sa dernière composition achevée, finalement à Leipzig en septembre après un "voyage d'évasion" en Suisse - correspond en tous points à la tragédie de la mort de Fanny et les conséquences pour sa propre famille et pour FMB et des siens. Sa propre mort, quelques mois après celle de Fanny, serait le point le plus bas pour sa femme, pour leurs enfants et pour eux. bien d’autres dans un cercle plus large de membres de la famille, d’amis, de collègues et d’étudiants. Le sixième quatuor à cordes de Felix Mendelssohn Bartholy est en fait un Requiem instrumental, qui ne connaîtra qu'une certaine suite dans l'œuvre pour quatuor à cordes de Dmitri Chostakovitch.

[@allahuakbee846]

Question to the Mendelssohn experts: Did Mendelssohn write more pieces after his sister's death, and if so, do they have the same fascinating sinister vibe? It's so tragic that Mendelssohn didn't live longer. Goofy pseudo-intellectuals and wannabe art critics complain that Mendelssohn's style hadn't changed over his life, comparing him to Beethoven who lived 20 years longer and had a much longer career. And it's dumb to think Mendelssohn didn't change his style. In fact, there seem to be different Mendelssohn styles - the young prodigy finding his own way navigating through his idols, then the established and beloved composer with his neoclassical understanding of romanticism, and then the third version where Mendelssohn begins to slightly change and - in this string quartet - rebel against his established style. Mendelssohn isn't the greatest B composer - in fact, he contains both, so-called classical "B tier" attitudes getting in touch with progressive "A tier" attitudes which makes him my favorite composer. When Mendelssohn's style seems to contract itself, it always comes to the point where Mendelssohn finds a way to expand the density, while composers who always expand sometimes seem constrained in their expansion, trapped in their freedom.

[@johnwalzer9187]

The howl of anguish heard shortly after the piece opens would confirm most people's belief that this quartet was written in reaction to his sister, Fanny's, death. That was in May. Mendelssohn wrote the piece in the summer of 1847 and it was premiered in October. Since he died at the beginning of November, this was his last completed composition. All the opus numbers from 73 on were assigned posthumously.

[@VincentViolin]

Also beethoven’s style may have changed a lot more compared to different composers due to his crippling hearing. Imagine the difference of writing music when you were young and old, compared to when you could hear and when you’re deaf.

[@therascals8237]

This piece to me is more full of anguish and despair vs sinister imo. It was the last piece he wrote iirc.

[@mehranmazloom2354]

True artemisian performance

[@aboelsaudeldessuky4844]

Thanks a lot for uploading

[@teofilpop0810]

We'll listen to this on the night of the day we're getting married.

[@letsschubertiad1966]

Must be wonderfull!

[@antoniocarlosantunesantune3217]

This work is simple great, the string quartet most heavy metal of chamber music!

[@ClassicalMusicAndSoundtracks]

Although I understand what you mean, it's an offense to compare a great composer of serious music like Mendelssohn to heavy metal.

[@eliass596]

​@@ClassicalMusicAndSoundtrackssounds similar to people who claim rap isn't music. It's just a different genre, and yes for some people metal is better, it's an opinion after all.

[@ClassicalMusicAndSoundtracks]

@@eliass596 I'm not the kind of person who says that something is not music. It's stupid to say that rap is not music, as much as it's stupid to say that heavy metal isn't. My comment has nothing to with the fact that heavy metal is or is not music, or with liking or not liking it. It has to do with the distinction between serious music and music for entertainment. I don't like, in general, the comparision between classical music and popular music because I think it's stupid to compare serious arts to entertainment. This is all I have to say. In my life I've enjoyed different kinds of music, including rap and metal, so it's not that you have to explain me that all genres of music contain pieces with a pleasant sound. I simply think that to say that heavy metal is serious art like classical music because it sounds good is not different than saying that the film "How high" is serious cinema because it makes you laugh.

[@birdygoods]

It’s so beautiful!!!

[@RickDistance]

7:03

[@williammatthewjosephgenova9802]

Herr Beethoven would have really liked Felix's Opus 80 string quartet.

[@alirezakhodayariii]

Fantastic😍

[@victormartinspazeto7019]

Música linda

[@penpow]

As it is in Mendelssohn's own autograph: "Hilf du mir"

[@VassilikiKravari]

Magnifique et terriblement tragique. Profonde tristesse, indignation pour la perte de sa sœur, et ce désespoir qu'on entend dans le second mouvement et qui secoue... Il a quand-même trouvé le courage de composer cette œuvre. Pour la mémoire de Fanny? Avant de la suivre à l'au-delà...

[@김진우-i2e]

the climax of 1st mvt is so dramatic and tragic

[@justforever96]

Never heard Mendelssohn untill I heard the Allegro Assai the other day. It blue my mind, I won't say literally because it wouldn't be true. But whaaaaat? Some one could make a badass edm beat with those tones. I have only heard a similar effect once before, when all the low scale brass all came in together and alone to make this powerful tone out of nowhere. I forget the piece now, but I could remember if I tried. I want to say Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony perhaps.

[@letsschubertiad1966]

He invented rock before there was a term for it :)

[@OrKestrAlan]

You are right

[@ClassicalMusicAndSoundtracks]

Just because it's an energic piece doesn't mean that it's rock. Fortunately Mendelssohn has never composed bad music for teenagers.

[@letsschubertiad1966]

@@ClassicalMusicAndSoundtracks there are some beautiful rock pieces too, and I know that this composition can not be rock, because that genre was invented years after Mendelssohns death. It does sound very brave and modern too me

[@ClassicalMusicAndSoundtracks]

@@letsschubertiad1966 Everyone knows that there are nice melodies outside classical music and that some pieces of classical music have weak melodies. So, you don't have to explain that there are some nice melodies in rock music. If I had written that there are not nice melodies in rock your reply would have been adequate. What I wrote in reality is different. Classical music is the genre of the highest class, rock music is vulgar. If you say that a genre of music is vulgar it doesn't mean that it doesn't contain pieces with good melodies. It only means that it's vulgar. It's quite common to read comments like "Vivaldi/Mozart/Beethoven was the first rock star" and I think that they are offensive. They were composers of serious classical music, you can not trivialize their art in this way!

[@letsschubertiad1966]

Why do you need to be offended by my comparison?, I just don't like that you talk about rock like something that is spoiling the youth. And I love Mozart, Schubert, Bach, Beethoven, Donizetti, Weber, Wagner, Tschaikovsky, Filtsch, Liszt, Chopin, Verdi, Brahms, Mielk, Lortzing, Haydn, Finger, Elgar, Viotti and especialy Mendelssohn because I have a special connection to him. I don't trivialize classical music, I adore it. That's why I made an obvious exaggeration about this piece.

[@josepholeary3286]

What concentrated tension! His last work - dead at 38 - a terrific loss to Music

[@choiyatlam2552]

Not only as a talented composer. He used his wealth to help musicians and revived Bach's work that was sidelined for a century.

[@letsschubertiad1966]

I was almost there...

[@moisesarellano9205]

1:13 👌😩

[@shin-i-chikozima]

As if the spring storm

[@Jack-oo6md]

24:39

[@nickyork8901]

The ending is pure Mendelssohn but could easily be late Schubert

[@strm4392]

21:03 It’s blinding

[@katjao.h.321]

07:03

[@davidyiu6660]

5:00

[@escalantemacaya]

dedicated to her sister Fanny on her death on may 1847

[@frederickthegreat4801]

23:58

[@giancarlofilacchione7371]

Un Quartetto che fa da Ponte tra Beethoven e Brahms.

[@thetshadow999animates9]

0:39 Personal Use

[@justforever96]

I cannot really read music but I understand a little, and I cannot see how the score in the screen has anything to do with the music being played. I don't see anything that looks like what I am hearing.

[@russelabban4828]

it matches perfectly 😎

[@marichristian1072]

Please learn to read music. It will preserve your brain well into old age. Following a score is one of the delights of life.

[@MariaWilliams-h7e]

Lee Susan Taylor Linda Clark Donna

[@eckehardhilf8824]

Hört das niemand außer mir auf Deutsch? Oder wagt kein Deutsch sprechender mehr sich zu solch hoher Darbietung in seiner Muttersprach zu äußern?

[@bobjann5512]

7:05