ArticleOpen Access http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.06.033
Analysis and Interpretation of the Spiritual Content in Mendelssohn’s “Serious Variations” Op.54
Xiaolu Zhang
College of Art Music (Piano Performance), Zhejiang Normal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China.
*Corresponding author: Xiaolu Zhang
Published: July 20,2023
Abstract
The Serious Variations is a large solo piano piece from Mendelssohn's late period. Through the analysis of this piece, we understand Mendelssohn's religious complex and classical tendencies in his late works to help us better understand the composer's stylistic characteristics. Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (1809-1847) was born in 1809 in Hamburg, Germany, into a wealthy Jewish family. His grandfather was a famous philosopher, his father was a successful banker, and his mother was a pianist. The privileged family provided him with an excellent upbringing, and his parents were very close to the literary scholars, philosophers, and thinkers of the time, such as Goethe, Heine, and Hegel, which enabled him to receive a good and abundant cultural education and various refined arts from an early age. Like the Austrian composer Mozart, he was not as closely associated with the Viennese classical school as Schubert was with the classical sonatas he wrote. Mendelssohn was a musical prodigy from an early age, showing his amaz-ing musical talent in his childhood.
Keywords
Serious Variations, Religious Complex, Classical Tendency
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How to cite this paper
Analysis and Interpretation of the Spiritual Content in Mendelssohn’s “Serious Variations” Op.54
How to cite this paper: Xiaolu Zhang. (2023) Analysis and Interpretation of the Spiritual Content in Mendelssohn’s “Serious Variations” Op.54. Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Science, 7(6), 1214-1220.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.26855/jhass.2023.06.033