An Analysis Of The Playing Of Mendelssohn 's "G Piano Concerto In

Current research on Mendelssohn’s "G minor Piano Concerto" mainly focus on mastery of music style and exposition of piano performance skills. Studies are generally believed that as one of the early representative works of Mendelssohn, "G minor Piano Concerto" includes smooth piano melody, clear structure, advocating classical form as well as pursuing innovation, and which inspired by Beethoven and Schubert as well as making progress based on their compositions. "G minor Piano Concerto" is the pioneer of "E minor Piano Concerto", one of the world’s ten famous violin concertos, though it is a slightly immature composition. This paper summarizes the predecessors’ studies and found some features of the concerto, such as intermittent performance in three movements, inseparable link between the themes of each movement, the canceled double exposition and cadanza which join a band, etc. In addition, the author found the high proportion and obvious advantage for diminished seventh chord of this composition, it not only plays an important role in increasing harmonic color and enrich emotion, and become the important means of modulation and free tonality for composer. In the aspect of musical performance, the author found that some modulations of the composition provides a new way of interpretation for performance thinking track.